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My overnight success.

Is made of many non-successful nights (and days)

As far as I remember I was a “writing person”. Calling myself a writer was for years prevented by impostor syndrome. In 2001 I ran a nationwide poetry group, with our own website, forums, meetups and print publications. I wrote a book, and thenI wrote another more popular book.

My English Lit teacher back in Marion, Iowa said that I was “lazy, but with potential”. I wonder if that’s what they always assume — after all, all lazy people have potential to be productive. It’s just that most of them never change.

I joined Medium on August 15th 2019. It took me a very long time to write my first story, select a publication and then click submit.

84 weeks of writing

Since then I managed to write one article per week on average, amounting to a total of 84 articles. I prepared my own images, charts, illustrations etc for all of my pieces which made finishing them even more time consuming.

Now, reflecting back, it turns out that what all those successful people with millions of views are…