Two of My Top Earning Stories in January were Personal

Thanks to another Medium writer for featuring my work

Andy Spears
2 min readFeb 2, 2023
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Every month, I take time to look at my earnings and identify the top stories in terms of earnings.

One thing I can count on: Stories about writing are always among the top earners.

This makes sense — Medium is a community of writers and writers enjoy reading about how other writers make writing work.

Happily, however, I’ve found recently that stories with a personal touch are getting noticed. I’ve also seen (as with December) some stories about policy issues ranking among the top earners.

With that, here’s the breakdown of my top five earning stories for January:

Number 1 and 5 were both personal stories — stories about emotions and alcohol use and coping strategies.

Here’s one of those:

This story was also the subject of an interview I did with Scot Butwell in Quick Talk. I definitely appreciate the connections that can be…

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Andy Spears

Writer and policy advocate living in Nashville, TN —Public Policy Ph.D. — writes on education policy, consumer affairs, and more . . .