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How I’ve Been Accepted on 9 Big Pubs in 3 Months Writing on Medium
The Startup, Towards Data Science, Mind Cafe, The Ascent, Be Yourself, and more
I hit publish for the first time 3 months ago. I had been reading medium for a few years already, but never thought I’d write anything here. I’ve always loved writing, but just my reflections and feelings; nothing worth enough to go public — or so I thought.
I started my career as an engineer. Soon, I realized I didn’t like it so I studied AI and landed a job at an AI startup. Then I took a master’s in cognitive neuroscience. I kept going from one place to another. In November 2020 I was fired. The pandemic took over my job. Suddenly I had an open window to explore the world of writing and blogging while I searched for another job.
I decided to give it a go on medium. I wrote an article about social anxiety and tried to get it onto some big pubs. I tried The Ascent, Mind Cafe, and Personal Growth (yep, I didn’t know how naive I was). All rejected the piece so I decided to publish it myself on the 22nd of December.
3 months later I’ve published 29 articles (27 curated). 19 of those have been published in big pubs:
