On Medium, I Made $1,400 in Three Months: Now, Here’s What I’m Doing to Get to $10K

Defining the writing and Medium UI tactics that worked, and outlining the newest ones, based on the data and discoveries

David W Litwin
9 min readFeb 20, 2024

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Last year, I wrote over 70 articles from January to October. I had fun. I enjoyed the writing process. It took a lot of time. I made a whopping $60. In four of those months, I made about seven bucks… total.

In the last three months, over 30 stories, I’ve made over $1,400. Most of the money came from four articles, and only one was boosted. Most of that revenue also came from writing on AI, particularly the AI platform Midjourney. But it all happened in the last three months. In November, I shifted all my tactics so I knew that the results were intentional and didn’t just materialize out of thin air.

January 2024 views and reads stats

My goal is to generate $1,500 per month from writing this year, so I’ve got a ways to go. For both you and myself, I’m detailing the strategies that worked in the last three months and sharing some new tactics I’m employing to get to (at least) $10K. Some of these are tried and true. Some may…

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