What is This Medium Thing Anyway? A Wannabe Writer’s Musing…

Hello Medium.

For decades I’ve been what I call myself, a “fledgling writer”. This means that I write for my own piece of mind, mostly journaling to get the thoughts out of my head and onto paper. I’ve never published anything, except that one time when I wrote to the editor about an article that I felt passionate about. I also had a short stint of writing down my experiences on Livejournal quite a few years ago when I was going through a painful divorce. That was a wonderful outlet for me and I just happened to gather a very…