Quality writing should be a collective smorgasbord of everything that writer reads, combined with everything that writer thinks, pulled from everything that writer has experienced.

Good writers enjoy reading. Not because what they’re reading may benefit them as a writer, but because they love to read. It’s one of the reasons they write.

But Medium has created a system where everyone can succeed, but nobody is challenged to grow, which leads to the same material being published over and over.

I love Tessa’s remark that "everyone’s opinion does not matter." Because it doesn’t matter how passionate you are about something, if your opinion is rejected or ignored, the solution is not reading articles about how to fix your writing. You probably don’t read enough, or you haven’t lived enough, so your point-of-view might be ill-informed, irrelevant, or out of touch. Where it should be informative, original, authentic, confident and unapologetic.

Writers should work on their content before working on quality or quantity. I know it’s hard to believe, but some people just aren’t meant to be writers.