Floyd I think we can often forget where we have come from...say, less than a dollar in the first two months of writing on Medium, then on to more than a dollar, to five dollars, eventually reaching $30! Not much money but the exponential growth (not the hourly rate) is significant. I read somewhere that if you can keep writing, your second year wil be significantly better. When I look at my stats, it looks like it could be true, The trouble is we all want to be super stars, Let's see how we can support each other. I'm thinking that you and i started around the same time, here on Medium. Have you visited Boomernags by any chance? I really like what's happening there. They are an older group, oder, but far from wrung out. https://medium.com/boomerangs