Top Five Tips to Get Your Story Curated
By: Pranjal Saxena
Tags: Tips, Marketing, Data Science, Audience, Marketing Strategies

The majority of the people face the same problem when they start their journey in story writing and making it publish. As for a beginner, it is a bit hard to get noticed without getting a helping hand for their valuable work to get seen. Here, In the article, I will be discussing the top 5 points that you should keep in mind to increase the change of your story get curated.

These are the points that I have observed in most of the stories I have read. And, I applied the same techniques to my stories and found that most of my stories got curated with those approaches. It is not true that by applying these five techniques your stories will definitely get curated but these are the essential steps that help your stories in a curated list.

Always Check for Grammar Errors: Whenever you write something and send your article to any publisher. On the publisher side, All the publishers have their editorial team. Where a human being is sitting there any deciding if your article should get publish or not. And, if your story will have lots of grammar mistakes or any punctuation error, then the editorial person will get frustrated and will end up switch to the next article as they have many article requests in a row.

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2. Use Authentic images: Believe it or not, but, this is the central portions that make makes the reader spend more time over your story. Reading just a complete text data lost the interest of the reader and the reader will scroll to the conclusion and will switch to another exciting story. Image or other graphical contents make the view light and make the mind feel comfortable. We should also take care of the accountability of the photos we used. We should refrain from using images directly from the internet as they might bring copyrights issues. Use images from Pixabay, Unsplash, StockSnap, Flickr, Pexels, Burst, The Stocks. These resources are open sources and free to use.

3. Cover Picture A Story Driver: Cover picture makes the article more catchy and attracts more attention to the people. Sometimes people don’t read the title and only look for the cover images as the cover image itself provides the solution to their problem they are looking for. The cover picture should not be a random one but should depict your story or should somehow relate to your story so that a reader can understand what this story is going to be. If the reader comes to your story by looking at the cover and doesn’t find what he/she was looking for then the reader might move to another story.

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4. Always add Title & Subtitle: Title & Subtitle plays a significant role in taking the attention of the public. Your title should define your story in a few words, and also you should refrain from using your title as a click-bait as if your title doesn’t satisfy the content then the reader might lose the interest of your upcoming posts. Also, here in the medium, you will get more audience by both article's views count and the claps.

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5. Adding Conclusion: Most of the time, we thought that I had written an excellent article with no Grammar mistakes, proper formatting, and also no copyrights infringements. Still, the publisher rejects it by submission. Sometimes conclusion works as proof if you have delivered whatever you have said. This is the best way to check the quality of an article quickly. You must add a conclusion to your article. The conclusion should be in short, defining what you have discussed in the above article.

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Final Closing Points

Congratulations, You have completed the lesson of Five most important checks to do before submitting your article to Medium. Those were the points that play significant importance for the article. These points define the quality of an article. Now, It’s your time to reviews these 5 points and makes your article publish. Good Luck with your Medium Journey.