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Results of My 30-Day Writing Challenge

The effect on earnings, followers, and more

Elin Melaas
3 min readMay 24, 2022
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This story is for anyone curious about how a 30-day writing challenge affected my measurable numbers on Medium.

The challenge

To write and publish 30 stories in 30 days, from April 23 to May 22.

How did I do?

I published 30 stories in these 30 days. Mission completed!

I self-published 21, and 9 were published in publications.

Views:

Before the challenge:

Stats before my 30-day challenge. Screenshot by the author.

After the challenge:

Stats after my 30-day challenge. Screenshot by the author.

I’m so happy with the increase in views, from 484 to 6031.

Followers:

As you can see in the screenshot below, I’ve had fantastic growth in the number of followers because of this writing challenge.

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Elin Melaas
Elin Melaas

Written by Elin Melaas

Books, reading, health, parenting, and coffee 📚 MSc in Medical Physics and BSc in Nutrition. Editor at Illumination. Owner of Hooked on Books.

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