How To Publish One Medium Story Every Day Despite Having A 9–5 Job
Time management guide for 9–5er
What if I told you that you can publish one Medium story per day without affecting your day job (9–5)?
Yup. You can do it. The mistake most full-time 9–5er (writers) make is they don’t work the “Smart” way. And let’s be honest, writing and publishing one Medium story isn’t that hard.
I churn out ~30 Medium stories per month. However, it’s a completely different scenario for me. Because I don’t do any job. I don’t work anywhere. All I do is write and write. I’m a full-time writer.
Most of my time goes to writing, learning, and exploring new things.
But don’t worry, I’ll show you how you can publish one Medium story daily (at a bare minimum) despite having a 9–5.
So here are the 3 simple steps you should be following to write and publish one Medium story per day. Let’s dive in!
1. Find Sweet Spots
You need to pay close attention here.
In order for you to write and publish one Medium story, you gotta have to sit down and write every single day. Does that make sense? So what do you have to do?
You have to find your sweet spot. Now what do I mean by this? You need to find the best time to write. The time where you can write for 2–3 hours straight.
Now here get things practical.
You need to write two times a day. First for writing, and second for editing. The reason I’m saying this is because writing and editing must be done at different times.
I believe if you write, edit, and publish your stories all in one shot — all you create is crap. So do not fall into this trap.
Now let’s see some scenarios here…
So you have this 9–5, meaning you don’t really have any time for writing between 9 am to 5 pm. So either you write early in the morning, evening, or night.
So in these 3 options (morning, evening, and night) you must choose two. It’s mandatory for you to choose any two of those three time slots.
- It can be Morning + Evening
- It can be Morning + Night
- It can be Evening + Night
Doesn’t matter which one you go with — you must go with any of the two slots.
Morning: If you think you can wake up early in the morning and get the writing done. Great. Go with it.
Evening: If you think you can find some time for writing in the evening. Great, go with it.
Night: Now understand. You can’t write at night. If you find time to write at night — the night would be for editing. Because you’ve to publish the story before you go to sleep.
So let’s say you write your story in the morning or evening and at night you edit the story and publish it. Then you go to bed.
Or if you want to skip the night part. You can get done your writing and publish the story before night. How? You write the story in the morning, you edit the story once you come back from your work — in the evening.
I can’t be more practical than this. You gotta use your common sense to make it happen.
2. Build Systems
Systems help you maintain consistency.
It’s impossible for you to maintain consistency so you can publish one Medium story a day.
You need systems, and when I say systems, you need to build some content or ideation file on Notion or your mobile note about the topics you wanna write about.
Build an ideation file where you’ll write down the ideas that hit you — these ideas will be the topics you’re gonna write about.
The second system you should follow is to outline the Medium stories before you write them. Write the introduction, main points, and conclusion part.
So when you sit down to write you don’t have to worry about “What am I gonna write.” You’ll have a pre-material that you just have to fill in when you sit down to write.
I use 2 types of systems for my writing.
- Brain dumping: Whenever an idea strikes me I write it down on the Notion page. And this helps me create and write a story about that.
2. Angle Framework: This is a way where I don’t need too many ideas to write. I just change the approach every time I write a new story on the same topic.
I’ve been using this framework for more than 6 months now. And it works always.
3. Master ChatGPT
ChatGPT will save you a ton of time.
Don’t take ChaGPT for granted. And if you’re not using it — start using it. This will not only help you save a ton of time writing and editing the story but also help improve your story quality.
Read this story if you want to master ChatGPT, where I talk about how you can use chatGPT for:
- Headline Creation
- Outlining The Content
- Editing The Content
ChatGPT can help you write headlines for you. It can also outline the content for you. And lastly, where you’ll save a ton of time — editing.
It’ll help you correct all the grammatical and spelling mistakes. All you’ve to do is just copy your Medium story that you write and paste it into ChatGPT and let it refine your story within a minute.
This is how you churn out 30 stories in 30 days.
Hope it helps. By accident, if you’re interested in growing and making money on Medium in 2024, consider reading the below story to learn more:
