Medium “Writing” tag statistics
How busy the Writing tag is, how stories perform there and where they get published. Competition is very high, and the tag is mixed for new writers.
Updated Oct 20, 2026 · based on 800 stories from the last 1.8 days
Busier than 92% of 73 tracked tags
20% of top stories are by writers with <100 followers
Competition and chances for new writers
With roughly 454 stories a day, Writing is busier than 92% of the 73 tags we track. Its reader-to-story ratio (24,891 followers per daily story) is higher than 40% of tags — fewer readers per story than average.
66% of stories here come from writers with fewer than 100 followers, and they account for 20% of the best-performing quarter of stories. 33% of stories are behind the paywall (Partner Program), and the average story takes 3.9 minutes to read.
Publications that publish Writing stories
| Publication | Followers | Writing stories (last 1.8d) |
|---|---|---|
| Write A Catalyst | 213K | 106 |
| ILLUMINATION | 327K | 71 |
| Pen With Paper | 22K | 34 |
| Nudge | 858 | 27 |
| No Time | 14K | 21 |
| Write Your World | 12K | 19 |
| Activated Thinker | 40K | 15 |
| The Gravity | 2.1K | 15 |
| Quirky Rants | 6.7K | 14 |
| Infinite Impulse | 4.8K | 10 |
Top Writing stories right now
- What Writing Can’t Do
- If You Want To Be A Successful Writer, Don’t Make These Mistakes
- We Need to Stop Romanticising the Pressure to Keep Art as a Side Hustle
- My First Medium Payout Was $17.21. Honestly, I Feel Two Ways About It.
- i hope you spend enough time getting to know yourself
- How Are People Making Thousands of Dollars on Medium?
- Death Needs a Rebrand
- 160 Hours of Hard Exercise Since January — Want To Know What’s Changed?
- You Are The Chosen One
- The Person Behind My Words
FAQ
- How many stories are published in the Writing tag on Medium?
- About 454 per day (3,181 per week), based on 800 stories published in the 1.8-day window before our last scan. The tag has 920,321 stories in total.
- Is the Writing tag competitive?
- Competition is very high: it is busier than 92% of the 73 tags we track. There are about 24,891 tag followers per new daily story.
- Can new writers succeed in Writing?
- 20% of the top-performing stories (top 25% by claps) came from writers with fewer than 100 followers, so the tag is mixed for newcomers. 66% of all stories in the tag come from such writers.