Draft Folder Solution
Confusing? Yes, Until it Wasn’t
I just made my life here at Medium a little bit easier. It’s because I get confused more now than I ever did before. Perhaps it has to do with my age, or perhaps it has to do with not eating breakfast at a decent hour and falling blood glucose levels. Whatever the reason, I find it annoying.
Over time, I’ve collected a number of articles that got stuffed into my drafts folder. There is one I put there deliberately that has to do with the technical parts of being a Medium writer. Like how exactly do I put a kicker above a title? What’s going on now is there are a bunch of articles that I have scheduled for the latter part of October and every other day throughout November while I plan to be busy writing for the NaNoWriMo challenge. 50,000 words written in 30 days. In short, a novel. Short, perhaps, but a book.
I decided this morning to begin taking some of those partially finished drafts, polishing them up, and, if possible, use them to fill in the spaces in November.
Except, then I got confused. I keep an Excel spreadsheet where I record my views (no longer counted as reads, which has still got me confused), my followers, and any money I earn (2¢ yesterday). I also write when I publish my stories. That way, I can see at a glance that I missed three days in a row, and I’d best…
