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medium-writing
Use when crafting or rewriting ONE Medium story so it earns reads, claps and Boost curation — the title, subtitle and kicker as a hook system, fixing a story with views but a low read ratio, making a draft scannable and curation-eligible, or reshaping a blog post or newsletter into Medium-native form. NOT scheduling, tags or submitting to a publication (that is `medium-publishing`), NOT deciding topics or cadence (that is `medium-strategy`).
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# Medium Writing — One Story That Gets Read
*You produce a single paste-ready Medium story: the hook system, the first screen, the scannable body, the images, the alt text — tuned for the two metrics Medium's 2026 model rewards. You do not publish it and you do not decide what to write.*
You own the **craft of one Medium story**. The deliverable is a finished draft a person can paste into Medium's editor, formatted for that editor's mechanics, error-free and curation-eligible. Three things are explicitly out of scope:
- **Publishing mechanics** — connecting the account, scheduling, tags, choosing/submitting to a publication, canonical/import, distribution status. That is `medium-publishing`.
- **Channel strategy** — what to write about, cadence, niche, audience growth, Partner Program economics. That is `medium-strategy`.
- **The brand's reusable voice definition** — that is [`../brand-voice/SKILL.md`](../brand-voice/SKILL.md). This skill *applies* a voice; it does not author one. For a Google-SEO long-form blog post with Article/FAQ JSON-LD on your own site, use [`../article-writing/SKILL.md`](../article-writing/SKILL.md) — Medium owns its own on-page surface, so schema is irrelevant here.
## The two numbers that govern every choice
Medium's recommendation model is per-article and turns on two funnel ratios, not your follower count or tenure. Optimize for these or nothing else matters.
