Hey Melinda! You're doing the best thing -- keeping up with writing and publishing regularly.

The stories that do best on Medium are those about famous topics that seem newsworthy.

For example, "I cheated on my husband on our wedding night" was a popular story because it covers a famous topic -- weddings and cheating.

You don't necessarily have to be that personal; for example, "Pepsi's $32B Typo Caused Deadly Riots" -- it's a famous story that seems newsworthy but is actually quite an old story.