Writers, Tell Your Truth and You’ll Grow Your Following

This is Charlie. He’s dead now, but for 18 years he was the one person who always knew if I was lying. Here he is telling me to stop lying. I did finally, and sadly he’s not around to see it.

Trigger warning: I reference my own story which contains child sexual abuse.

I’ve been writing and publishing on Medium three to four times a week for eight weeks now. My following is growing steadily; I’ve even been named Top Writer in Feminism and I’m making grocery money. It doesn’t sound like much, but eight weeks ago I had less than 100 followers and was making…