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ENJOYING THE MEDIUM RIDE!
I am new to Medium. I enrolled in September and have just recently started consistently writing. I don’t know if I am a good writer. I have 7 Followers for whom I am grateful and views and claps. This make me so happy!
I follow other writers and hope they follow me back. I am learning all about what new writers should and should not do. I am trying.
What really surprises me is the amount of excitement and joy that being on this platform has brought to my life. Is it just me? I am elated when I find I have a new follower, or I see those wonderful little vibration hand claps.
I am so happy to have the opportunity to express my creative side through writing, and sharing with others is truly inspirational. I love reading your stories. You are all such amazing, interesting and talented people. I am humbled.
My mornings are full of anticipation. You bet Medium is the first site that I check! Please tell me you also lay awake at night rehearsing your next story. I seem to have such great ideas at 2:00 a.m. in the morning.
I don’t know if I could be accused of having “a beginner’s mind.” “Shoshin is a word from Zen Buddhism meaning “beginner’s mind.” It refers to having an attitude of openness, eagerness, and lack of preconceptions when studying a subject, even when studying at an advanced level, just as…
