some comments on medium

an uninformative headline with no capital letters

where to begin? -
how to begin?

i’ll begin with the medium (Medium) using the style i usually write in

when i first looked at Medium i was amazed at the amount of self-reference there was

how to write on Medium
how to succeed
how to build your audience
how to get a lot of followers
how to make money
how i wrote an article a day

it seemed totally wrong and not useful for me - so i cancelled after about a week —

but i wanted some sort of web platform and after much thinking and searching for alternatives i decided on another try — by refining my ‘recommendation’ - i found that there was a lot of good and interesting writing (i don’t like most writing so it’s not surprising that i don’t like most of what i read (what is fed to me) on Medium so i decided to try to use it in my own way

what do i want to do here —
what do i want to get from Medium —
my desire:
1) is to get some attention directed at my website where i am publishing a journal that i’ve been writing for nearly fifty years -
2) to write differently — to show that there are alternatives to the conventional forms of writing

(Medium is mostly about what i’m not)

some notes on my style

i don’t like capital letters (i capitalize Medium to indicate the writing platform)
i don’t like conventional punctuation
i don’t like the sentence / paragraph structure of ‘normal’ writing
i don’t like to write like someone or anyone else
i don’t want a large number of readers
i don’t want to build an audience
i don’t want a large audience — i don’t need a large audience
i don’t want followers —

i want some people to read what i write (‘to follow’ is not a good metaphor)
(i can’t imagine a large audience reading what i’ve written and plan on writing)

i don’t want to make money from my writing —

i think a ‘large’ income is usually a human failure - a moral failure

i don’t like to compete — i don’t like competition
i don’t like self-confidence
i don’t want to influence anyone —
i don’t like the concept of ‘influencing’

i want to inspire & encourage people to to get outside of the framework of ‘writing correctly’

i used to know how to write — fortunately i’ve mostly gotten past that)

i want to succeed but on my own terms

(i find it difficult to differentiate between success and failure)

i want to make text - not sense

i want people to look at my website but if you don’t like my ‘style’ don’t bother with the my journals

i think writing:

should not be concise
should not be clear (charity is a virtue - clarity is a vice)
should not be consistent
should not be coherent

i like ambiguity