How Can New Writers Reach Their First 100,000 Views

And earn $$$ along the way

The distant mountain ranges are reminiscent of the Medium stats (that is if your story goes viral). Photo by Laura Chouette on Unsplash

Hey there,

Let’s get straight to the point!

In this post, I boil down the lessons that I learned after analyzing one of my semi-viral posts that made $222. Lessons that can make you reach a huge audience too.

A quick background: A few months back I tried writing beyond my regular topics and wrote an article about my travel and published it with Illumination.

It was something off-track for me as I generally write tech-related articles (data science and software), poems, or comics. Since technology articles are usually sought after on Medium, I generally do not give much thought to them when they become popular.

Now, this post is not even my most-earning one.

But it is the most interacted one — with so many claps and so many readers pouring in genuine love in the comments.

And that is exactly what I love about the post — huge reach and interaction with the users!

The post performed pretty well.

Screengrab by the author