The Fab Five from February

My top-earning stories from a month of writing on Medium

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This is it.

My monthly lookback on earnings to see which pieces earned the most in the past month.

The trends remain the same:

1. Personal stories perform well
2. Stories about earning money from writing are consistent earners
3. Writing consistently (not necessarily more pieces, but regularly) boosts earnings.

With that, here are the pieces that earned the most for me last month.

Show Them You Love Them With Debt

This one’s about a favorite target: The short-term lending app Dave.

Dave’s mascot is a cartoon bear. The app uses all kinds of marketing gimmicks to convince users or would-be users to take out short-term loans.

It’s generally a bad deal and rarely does taking on more debt make the stress of debt feel better.

My Top-Earning NewsBreak Story in January was about Hoarding

The number two story from February has it all.

• Earning money from writing
• Hoarding (everyone loves stories about hoarding)
• Politics (the piece covers a failed policy decision)
• A writing platform that is not Medium

I’m a bit surprised this wasn’t number one based on the overall story content I published in February.

I Sometimes Wish I Had a Magic Eraser

Number three was a personal story that I wrote in January.