A New Approach

I’ve blogged for more than fifteen years and I still learn something new almost every day. I’ve always believed that one of the keys to growth on a personal level is to never be afraid to change.

A year ago I decided to leave WordPress and take my blogging somewhere else. I grew disillusioned with the corporate approach that WordPress took with their customers by increasing prices and reducing support to non-business writers.

I shifted my writing to a new platform, or at least new to me, called Medium. Medium presented itself as a place for writers to connect and support one another. For the most part, this has been true, but lately things seem to have changed.

Medium was always rather insincere about their business model and their algorithm that was supposed to help writers. Every few weeks there has been a new exampl of people feeling exploited by Medium.

I didn’t start blogging to make money. If that happens, it would be great, but it doesn’t motivate me to write in the first place. In a year, I haven’t made $12 total. I pay $5 monthly for Medium, and then find out that Medium can actually claim ownership of whatever I write on their platform. I really don’t care for that.

I looked around and realized that I needed to start my own website so I could control what I write for myself, and also retain ownership of what I write. I selected Ghost as my platform and started writing there first. Then I would post a link to my Medium page to work around the ownership issue.

Anyhow, I decided to change my approach to blogging once again. I’m going to make Ghost my primary blogging platform and hope that people enjoy it. I’ll still tr-post some content to Medium, but the allure is gone there.