I totally understand Vienna De Vega but I think we need to be practical as writers also.

You have to hit that bullseye where practicality and art converge. It doesn’t matter if I get 20 views or 2,000, I’m still going to write at the end of the day — but there’s also a part of me that wants to be seen more.

I’m a big believer that the best stories we write are always the ones where we throw caution/stats to the wind and just get going… but I think moreso what I’m talking about in this article is general Medium strategy, not content writing strategy.

I enjoy the game behind this. The game of figuring out what works and what doesn’t. What’s actually happening vs. what seems to be happening.

I love tinkering and looking at it from an analytical sense. It’s fun for me and I think this can be an art form in and of itself — to use creativity to excel at any given platform at any given time.

People seem to forget that platform strategy is JUST AS creative as producing content for that platform. I love every second of it. It’s definitely an obsession, but in the end it’s helping me succeed that much more while fueling my creative muscles.

It’s totally useful, to me, to do all of this and I think if anything it’s more practical/useful to look at what’s happening on a platform as a whole rather than just write stuff and pray it’ll be seen.

The algorithm can always be used to our advantage despite it getting harder and harder — it’s our job (or not) to figure out what actually is happening.

That’s how I see it.