A Year on Medium

This week I hit 1000 followers!

Photo by Marcin Dampc: https://www.pexels.com/photo/group-of-people-having-neon-party-1684187/

You are all wonderful people, and I am glad to meet you and read your stories. Keep them coming!

I know many of the 1000 people who have clicked “follow” are not readers, but the metric milestone is still exciting to me. I’ve seen it coming since January, and I have been watching out for when it would happen. Technically it took me a little over a year to make it to 1K, but for most of the first 6 months, I had single-digit followers, so we can lump all of those months together and say it was about a year.

I also recently passed 110 stories. I think I average about 8 minutes per story, and at about 250 words per minute, that is at least 220,000 words. Whoa. That is a lot of words!

Here are my top five stories, based on the number of fans.

1. About Me — 49 fans. This has been pinned to my page since I wrote it. I love reading other people’s About Me stories and I tried my best to contribute to the genre.
2. Why Do Republicans Keep Winning With the Working Class? The first in a three-part series about who the working class votes for and why — 40 fans. I don’t know why this one got so much more attention than the other two. I think maybe I triggered some people.
3. Why do White People Own 98% of the Farmland? — 37 fans…