Why I Haven’t Updated Medium In Months

I don’t ever suffer from Writer’s Block but I do sometimes suffer from feeling like my writing is awful.

There is never a day in which I can’t come up with ideas for stories to write or posts to share but there are moments where I hate what I produce.

Don’t take that to mean I never write here or elsewhere because I am a disciplined writer in the sense that I write daily.

That discipline is how I have maintained about a half dozen blogs and have been doing so for years.

At times it has left me feeling over extended and whenever that has happened I have responded by shifting my focus to supporting just one or two of the blogs.

How Medium Got Left Behind

During the past five months I moved twice within California and then made a much larger move to Texas.

That occupied a ton of internal bandwidth, not to mention the surgery I had to repair a hernia.

The net effect was a significant loss of free time and an evaluation about where and how to use what I did have.

I like Medium and have enjoyed the time in which I have been using it but I haven’t built a significant readership here, especially when compared to something like TheJackB.

Granted I have been writing at TheJackB since about 2010 and that followed six years at a Blogger blog so it wouldn’t make sense for me to expect Medium to have the same pull yet.

Especially since I haven’t spent as much interacting here as I have done elsewhere.

Bottom line, unless you have a chunk of money for advertising or luck into some ‘big wins’ in another way it takes time to build a real readership.

Since I haven’t built that readership here I haven’t felt as much of a pull to focus on Medium as I do on the Wordpress blogs.

Thus I am faced with the question of what to do with this place.

Do I try to build a readership here or focus on using it as a platform to send more readers to TheJackB.

I won’t ever stop writing. It is what I do. It is who I am and how I breathe.

I suppose part of why I’ll continue to maintain this place here is because like the other places I write it offers my oxygen and a chance to meet like minded folk.

Sometimes being left behind is a good thing because it offers a different perspective and a chance to look at things in a way you wouldn’t otherwise do.

Left behind doesn’t have to be left out.