Medium “Writing Tips” tag statistics
How busy the Writing Tips tag is, how stories perform there and where they get published. Competition is low, and the tag is tough for new writers.
Updated Oct 20, 2026 · based on 440 stories from the last 14.6 days
Busier than 21% of 73 tracked tags
4% of top stories are by writers with <100 followers
Competition and chances for new writers
With roughly 30 stories a day, Writing Tips is busier than 21% of the 73 tags we track. Its reader-to-story ratio (5,060 followers per daily story) is higher than 16% of tags — fewer readers per story than average.
38% of stories here come from writers with fewer than 100 followers, and they account for 4% of the best-performing quarter of stories. 64% of stories are behind the paywall (Partner Program), and the average story takes 4.6 minutes to read.
Publications that publish Writing Tips stories
| Publication | Followers | Writing Tips stories (last 14.6d) |
|---|---|---|
| Write A Catalyst | 213K | 56 |
| ILLUMINATION | 327K | 20 |
| Pen With Paper | 22K | 15 |
| The Daily Draft | 13K | 8 |
| Write Your World | 12K | 7 |
| The Romance Writer’s Club | 57 | 7 |
| The Common Room | 150 | 5 |
| Activated Thinker | 40K | 5 |
| Suspicions & Superstitions | 3 | 5 |
| No Time | 14K | 4 |
Top Writing Tips stories right now
- What Writing Can’t Do
- If You Want To Be A Successful Writer, Don’t Make These Mistakes
- How Are People Making Thousands of Dollars on Medium?
- The Difference Between What Seems Similar
- New Writers vs. Expert Writers: Two Different Journeys, Equally Worth Honoring
- Return Of The Luddites
- Your Articles Aren’t Bad. Here’s Why People Don’t Read Them.
- How to Write a “Viral” Headline; It Does not include “You,” “This,” or “Why.”
- Dear Algorithms, let me be a writer
- How to Make Your First Dollar on Medium (Without the Hype)
FAQ
- How many stories are published in the Writing Tips tag on Medium?
- About 30 per day (211 per week), based on 440 stories published in the 14.6-day window before our last scan. The tag has 114,691 stories in total.
- Is the Writing Tips tag competitive?
- Competition is low: it is busier than 21% of the 73 tags we track. There are about 5,060 tag followers per new daily story.
- Can new writers succeed in Writing Tips?
- 4% of the top-performing stories (top 25% by claps) came from writers with fewer than 100 followers, so the tag is tough for newcomers. 38% of all stories in the tag come from such writers.