I am Colonel Mustard

I Am Lost in the Void, Someone Help Me Off This Deserted Cyber Planet

Medium Has Abandoned Me

I have fallen off the face of Medium. Something happened a few months back. I used to have a small following to keep me moving forward. I used to get boosts.

I used to have at least five readers per story. Now I’m lucky if one person reads what I write.

Hello, there! How are you? I guess we have to respond, highlight, and decorate everything or else doom, doom, doom? If you write a story and no one reads it, was there a tree that fell in the woods or not? Did the chicken cross the road or explode? 🐓

Should I complain about falling into a Medium void? Probably not. It’s uninteresting. Is it frustrating? Very.

It’s possible that my writing has hit a wall and turned into sludge. No one wants to read sludge. People want something with a spark to it. They want something useful, exciting, and strange. That’s another problem. Many of the stories coming to me are about writers writing about writing. The worst. Followed by five ways to execute some sort of tech trick. No, thank you!

So what can be done? I don’t know. I think I might part ways with Medium. It seems the algorithm and I are going separate ways. My ideas maybe aren’t working here. Perhaps I’m unwilling to write what works here.