I am SO SORRY you got scammed into paying $500 .

The ironic thing is that so many writers on this platform are giving away solid advice for free, which is to say that they're writing good insightful stories about this place and how it works.

I've written a couple of stories about what to write here if you want to make more money. And it will cost you ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to read them.

Here's one of them:

https://medium.com/ask-an-editor/to-get-thousands-of-readers-aa3d742365ec?sk=5ed7704565b3ad0b25c7edf177ebc2af

There are scads more of them in my pub, Ask an Editor.

https://medium.com/ask-an-editor