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What to Do When Multiple People Have Written About Your Topic, and You Feel They Did a Better Job?
In the words of a drag queen, “You got to put your own stank on it.”
We know that consistency is key to being successful on Medium. But, damn, if it isn’t hard to constantly come up with new topics to write about.
In 2024, I challenged myself to publish 50 articles. I failed miserably.
It was partly because I pressured myself to cover unique topics no one had previously covered.
Each time I thought of a subject for a new article, I’d do a quick search on Medium to see if someone had already written about it.
If multiple people had covered my proposed topic, and especially if the articles were recently published, I’d feel deflated and abandon my idea.
What I didn’t realize was this: If multiple people have written about a topic, that’s a good thing!
Get over the belief that the door is closed to more articles just because someone else has written about it.
After all, it’s not like Starbucks started because there weren’t any coffee shops around. When Howard Schultz opened the first Starbucks café in 1986, Seattle already had a thriving…
