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I Didn’t Realize That I Had a Viral Article Until Now

And now I don’t know what to do with it!

Jillian Amatt - Artistic Voyages
4 min readMar 12, 2022

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Photo by Andre Hunter on Unsplash

So I started my Medium journey on January 31st, 2022.

It wasn’t a chosen day, it was totally arbitrary. I had signed up for Medium mid-January signing on for the $5/month membership straight away because I just had a feeling that this was something that I was going to enjoy.

Thankfully, unlike some other platforms, I was NOT wrong about this one!

Anyways, as I said, I didn’t plan the day, it just got to a point where I had read enough, and I was ready to write my own story. I figured that explaining to everyone that we had sold all of our things to travel full-time would be a good way to introduce myself so that people would get an idea of who I was and what I am about. I will also be posting an About Me story soon to fill in all the other gaps.

After an initial positive response from that story, I decided to keep going. My next post Thoughts On Being Busy wasn’t received as well, as you can see below, but my third post went a bit crazy.

The problem with that post, though, is that it has 95% external views, which means that I don’t get paid. As I have learned, Medium only pays for internal views that are brought on by paying…

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Jillian Amatt - Artistic Voyages
Jillian Amatt - Artistic Voyages

Written by Jillian Amatt - Artistic Voyages

Artist, traveler, foodie, gardener. Owner of publications Sharing Food and Share Your Creativity. A boost nominator - passionate about real writing on Medium.

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