Chronic pain is so debilitating, especially for us writers. I read your article about struggling on Medium after 11 months of writing for multiple publications. You might find this article to be of help:
Unfortunately, Medium seems to curate and promote a few categories (primarily programming and UX). Most readers here are entrepreneurs, programmers or designers.
Although some well-written titles that foster curiosity get lucky in other categories, creative writing and personal stories seem to die here.
I’ve written this story,
Which I think should have been curated, but wasn’t (along with many others I’ve simply deleted).
Medium just doesn’t seem to care about anything that isn’t a clickbait title or a top 5 list on a limited set of categories. They also don’t want anyone to talk about Medium. It’s like the Fight Club of writing.
I wish you both pain relief and profitable writing soon ^^
