I’ve been a working writer for over 12 years and the 70/20/10 rule is one I’ve always applied to my time. The 10 part is the most fun.

Here’s how it works — I spend the majority of my writing time on work that pays, around 20% on testing out…

“No,” he stated bluntly, staring at my portrait drawing. “It’s not right.” I looked at it, trying to see what he was seeing. What was he talking about? It was the best portrait I’d ever done. I’d had two lessons in his masterclass and already I was seeing a huge…

I wanted to be the next big literary novelist. I wanted to write something beautiful, something that became a classic, like Grapes of Wrath or Beloved. I wanted my work to matter.

I entered a nationwide competition, previously won by a number of significant authors in New Zealand. The prize…

Medium looks confusing at first glance, but it really isn’t. It’s certainly not as hard as toasting a banana.

Medium is like a giant bookstore. It has magazines full of stories on its shelves. It has individual stories pinned to the walls. Some of the stories get featured in the…

Americans spend over $134 million on weight-loss programs every day. It’s understandable when the stress-eating and inactivity of the pandemic have left many people feeling unhealthy.

But is finding “health” as complicated and expensive as we make it? …

There’s a lot of space in the writing world for stories about relationships. Perhaps you’ve got a personal story about your first marriage; a piece about how to date online better; or maybe a parenting article you’d love to write?

Relationships — including parenting, love, dating, and friendship — have…

When I first discovered Medium, I had no idea I’d stumbled on to a platform with as wide a range of writing as you’ll find anywhere on the internet.

Medium isn’t just a platform for bloggers or listicle writers. It’s for teachers, poets, fiction writers, coaches, business people, personal essayists…