Do this and you'll overcome your lack of motivation, words will practically explode onto the page and your writing will improve beyond measure. (4/4)
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“Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.”
These are the words of Stephen King who, so far (yeah the guy's still going!), has written over 65 novels and 200 short stories.
Here’s how you can do it to (1/4)
Make a routine, set a word count for the day. 500 words, 1000, 5000 it doesn't matter.
The only important thing is that you stick to it.
Not all of it is going to be Shakespeare but you cannot edit a blank page. (3/4)
Formatting is the simplest way to 10X your writing.
The days of people reading huge blocks of text are over.
Dead.
People no longer have time nor the interest to spend time trying to understand your writing.
People skim first.
(1/4)
- By grabbing attention with a killer hook
- By using plenty of white space to aid readability
- By using lists to accelerate the rate at which you give value
Do this and you'll create writing that is skimmable, easy-to-read and will provide the reader with max value (3/4)
I’m writing an ebook!
I’m through the looking glass and sailing into no-man’s land.
I’ve now written more words in a single place than I have since my university days
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No matter what you do, you have to intrigue the reader and promise (or at the least suggest) that you will give them value in exchange for the time it takes to read your writing.
Good luck!
“On the average, five times as many people read the headline as read the body copy"
This is from the greatest adman ever, David Ogilvy.
It's impossible to overstate the value of a strong opener to grab attention, hook the reader and keep them reading.
How do you do this?
1. By catching them off-guard with an unorthodox statement
2. By catching their eye with a statistic or number?
3. Ever considered a rhetorical question? (See what I did there?)
Last year I got over 2 million views on my LinkedIn posts...
I'm not saying this to brag.
I'm saying this because writing online is the no.1 thing you can do to:
- Advance your career
- Build a new revenue stream
- Open doors to new communities
DM me to unlock these for you