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My 5-Day Experiment Working For Miranda Priestly Changed My Approach to Creating Content

Carmellita
3 min readNov 24, 2021

What if you worked for Miranda Priestly?

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We are all trying to find the best approach for writing on Medium. Do you want to build an audience? Perhaps, improve your writing skills while building an audience? What is our focus? Your brand message? Developing your voice?

With so many options and strategies available to us, what should we do to take Medium seriously and build an engaging audience online?

The past five days, I tried something different to take Medium even more seriously, solidify my commitment, and give my best on this platform. What did I do?

Well, first, have you ever seen the movie “The Devil Wears Prada?” The plot of the movie centers on a talented college grad who gets an internship in the fashion industry. She is not taken seriously by others in the organization but decides to work hard even though she was treated badly by her boss Miranda Priestly, played by Meryl Streep.

Miranda Priestly is a hard-nosed boss inspired by true events surrounding “Vogue” editor Anna Wintour who is known as having an uptight personality with high standards.

With this in mind, each day for five days, I sat behind my computer and pretended I worked for Miranda Priestly…

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Carmellita
Carmellita

Written by Carmellita

Writer, Poet, Storyteller, & Scholar. BA in Speech Communication. Joyful Creator. Blogger with an old-school flavor. A former ghostwriter who came back to life.

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