Now, earning alotof money is a different story.

Thats not the only option, though.

Medium-owned publications like Gen, OneZero, and Zora pay as much as $1 per word.

This illustration shows a woman sitting on her couch and working from home with her feet propped up on a table. Her hair is in a bun. This is meant to represent a person working on a freelance story for Medium.

Danielle Sullivan, left, is an autistic mom who runs Neurodiverging, a blog and podcast about neurodivergent family life. She made $20 for an article with 2,000 views. Tom Blake, right, has been a Medium Partner since 2018. The marketing blogger behind This Online World crossed the $1,000-mark on the site earlier this year. Photos courtesy of Danielle Sullivan and Tom Blake

But to get that money, you gotta convince an editor to take your work.

No Interest Til Almost 2027?

In the past month, she made $20 for an article with 2,000 views.

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Tom Blake, on the other hand, has been a Medium Partner since 2018.

The marketing blogger behindThis Online Worldcrossed the $1,000-mark on the site earlier this year.

Both have some tips for new Medium Partners.

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Sullivan opted to write smaller, personal opinion pieces that only took a couple of hours to put together.

Republished posts are perfectly fine.

Publish Your Post

Its easy to make an attractive, professional post in Medium.

The in-internet tool word processor allows you to add headers, images, and tags.

One way to get attention is catching the eye of Medium editors.

Profit Maybe

Sullivan made $20 last month.

Thats pretty typical, according to Mediums statistics.

These publications are known to payfairly and well.

Choose Your Publication

Gay Mag may be defunct, but several other Medium publications are still around and thriving.

A pitch is an email in which you outline the story you want to sell.

Some editors get hundreds of pitches every week, and it can be tough to stand out.

Here are some general tips to help get your pitch accepted:

Even then, its a gamble.

Dawson had pitched her story to several publications without hearing back.

The editor saw her vision and she got her yes.

Write the Piece

Once youve secured an assignment, the real work begins.

For Dawsons piece, she interviewed sources, wrote the piece, and went through multiple rounds of edits.

Not every assignment will require that level of work, but many high-paying ones do.

When I got the go-ahead, I delivered, Dawson said.

As a freelance writer, thats the best you’ve got the option to do.

While rates can vary, writers can expect to earn a fair wage writing for Medium-owned publications.

At the same time, its not exactly a get-rich-quick scheme.