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I was selected to take part in Medium Creator Fellowship. Here are my thoughts on it

Thilina Dasantha
2 min readNov 9, 2021

I am a firm believer in the quote, “Everything happens for a reason”. Meeting a new friend, investing in a hobby, and taking a leap of faith such things will reveal their purpose eventually. I was referred to Medium by a colleague of mine, saying that I could use some exposure to my writing here. So I took it on and started writing for the Medium.

Although I started it as a hobby, I was able to see beyond that soon after I earned my first few dollars off of it.

So I wrote and wrote but never been able to reach any kind of satisfying outcome for a few months.

I was close to giving up thinking that this isn’t working out and then Medium reached out to me, well not exactly me, but it was something like that for me.

I was to take part in a fellowship program initiated by the Medium itself, and they compensated me for participating in it. All I had to do was what I already do at medium, write.

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So I did. I wrote 4 articles per month, and It fixed my writing schedule a bit. I was never a guy who would write with a schedule. I write only when I get random motivation or inspiration out of nowhere, and This was far too different. I was working

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