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My First $300 Month on Medium, Bragging About Earnings, & the New Tipping Feature

End-of-month rant, er, processing

Dana Leigh Lyons
5 min readJul 31, 2022

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Not me. Sex sells. (Photos by Joshua Rondeau, Unsplash)

First, an asterisk: My earnings for the month were $293.37 as of noon, Atlantic Time on July 31st.

All evidence from past stats indicates that I’ll exceed $300 by day’s end. If not, apologies for the clickbait. Although…even $297 will exceed $300 here in Canada.

Second, a question: Do you like reading these meta posts? I know the trope is tired.

Sidebar: Does that pass as correct usage of “trope”? I realize it’s not quite a fit, but…wordplay, rhythm, poetics.

Speaking of which…

I’ve been playing around on Medium this month, tweaking what I write and choosing to likely earn less.

Get the how and why, with mid-month earnings and read stats here:

Shortly after writing that

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