Medium: A New Home for My Thoughts

This year, I decided I just couldn't keep going without an audience. In May, I posted my first personal essay on Medium, a subscription website that welcomes writing from all people, on all topics. Getting my books published is still my principal goal, but I really enjoy crafting short-form pieces for this online community. As an added bonus, there are no ads and no spammy self-promotions on Medium, and no AI-written pieces, as far as I can tell. Just ideas and reflections from professional and hobbyist writers, and a simple process that democratizes their distribution. 

Time being a limited commodity, it's unlikely I'll blog very much over here. But if you're a Medium member, you can read my memoir of a trip to California in Travel Memoirs, or my thoughts on the intersection of household life and creativity in Know Thyself, Heal Thyself. I don't plan on posting links to every single article, so just find me at medium.com/@elenavalewahl_73956. And please, check out some other fabulous writers making sense of our world on the platform, too. I'm learning something new every day over there.