Write For Journey To Self
By: Lucy Milanova
Tags: Publishing, Submission Guidelines, Submission, Writing, Writing Tips

Write For Journey To Self

If you have a story to share from your journey towards a better, wiser, happier, healthier and more mindful self — we want you!

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Hello, and thank you for stopping by!

Journey to Self is a young, yet mature publication that helps individuals to learn and work towards self-betterment through the stories of others, their insights and life experiences.

Mapping unique personal journeys to better, wiser, happier, healthier and more mindful selves.

These are the journeys of individual transformation, self-development, personal growth and self-improvement.

We aim to become Medium’s lead publication within the mindful personal development and growth space — connecting elements of self-development, applied psychology and practical coaching with mindfulness, health practices, even spirituality.

And we’d love to have you onboard, to grow with us!

What matters to us?

There are three key aspects we’d look for in your writing:

Authenticity — your genuinely honest experience mapping any of the above on your ‘Journey To Self’ shared through your writing,

Personal experience — that you have experienced yourself and learned from, that what made you grow, progress, transform, and improve as a person — not a story of someone else,

Quality — from the content to the grammar front. We look for an error-free, correctly formatted, structurally well divided, Grammarly checked, clear and easy to follow content.

If you’re new to Medium, here you can learn more about writing and publishing, formatting, as well as the curation guidelines.

On the structural front, try to make sure that your article establishes what the ‘subject’ is at the beginning, then further develops it in the middle and brings out some good conclusions at the end.

Ask yourself— what subject am I sharing with the reader — why, where do I want to take them, what do I want them to learn, and how do I want to conclude this piece? What is the reader’s take away from here — how can they learn and benefit from my story? That helps you create and keep the structure clear.

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More on the submission guidelines

We only accept unpublished drafts — the ones that were not previously published elsewhere on Medium. You can submit a piece that’s been previously published outside Medium — quoting the original source where the article was published.

Meeting the requirements above — authenticity, quality of writing and personal experience that links with Journey To Self subject

Send an email with your draft link — (that you can access through the three-dots next to your ‘Profile Menu’ in the top right corner of your draft -> ‘’Share draft link’’ -> Copy and Paste) to lucy@lmcreativesolutions.com — including your Medium name and link to your profile.

Give us 24–48 hours to get back to you with a response. I’ll do my best to come back to you with why the story is or is not selected and if selected — when it will be published.

How to become our writer?

You can either become the writer by first submitting your draft link — as mentioned in the process above. Or, by leaving a comment as a response to this article expressing your interest to write for us.

It’d be helpful if you’ve already published over Medium, so I can check your existing work. I’ll do my best to get back to you within 24 — 48 hours.

Tags to use in stories:

You can obviously use various tags in your articles based on the subject. For the record, some of our mains are Life Lessons, Self Improvement, Inspiration, Health, Mental Health, Mindfulness and Creativity.

I am looking forward to hearing from you!

Lucy

The Editor, Journey To Self