No worries. We're just getting acquainted! Sometimes the emotion is what gets people reading your stuff, especially if it's there in the headline and the opening lines.

I'm a professional writer for magazines and since the pandemic, work has been slow, so I've looked at online options for more work.

I probably spend far too much time on here, but I find Medium is different from what I do commercially. The stuff I do for magazines rarely does well on here.

First person stories might do better. My best performing stories have been on copyright issues.

But overall, the pay isn't good here. It's probably not good use of your time if you can get the income from elsewhere. I think you have to enjoy it. I'm a bit addicted.

I only started doing it because magazines are dropping like flies and I was struggling to get the work in. The whole print publishing industry was in decline, even before the pandemic.

A few viral articles kept me here, and then the fact that I enjoy it - that also keeps me here.