Yes! That’s it, interactive. I wonder if I would actually get off my rusty dusty and write if it wasn’t for Medium. I’ve come to know some interesting people, it’s like they are my friends . Not in the sense that my friends are my friends, but anyway my RL friends don’t read my writing*— which is probably for the best. Along with family they find their way into my writing sometimes and I’m not sure how they’d react if they recognized themselves.

The money is an additional form of recognition, another kind of clap. I pretty much meet my monthly goal of covering the cost of my Medium subscription.

*Except my old buddy from middle school (that is, junior high as it was called way back then) Rkayell, who writes on Medium also.