My Very First Story and My Highest-Performing Article

Following a Medium prompt started by Vritant

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Kristina God recently wrote a post comparing her very first post with the most popular one that she’s written.

She followed a writing prompt proposed by VRITANT who came up with this interesting idea — write a piece highlighting the very first story you published on Medium and compare it with the most popular story to date. Then tag your favorite pals.

The idea intrigued me and I decided to follow the suit.

It’s a great experience to look back to the time when you published your very first story and compare it with your highest-performing story.

I published my first story on this platform in May 2020. It happened to be right at the beginning of the pandemic.

Here’s the link to the story.

Important lessons I learned during my time in quarantine.

The story had a pandemic-related theme so it received a decent readership, even though I was a newbie writer. Since I published my first story, I’ve been writing pretty much every…