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Today’s issue is brought to you by Shivendra Misra.
When I started writing online, I was nervous and clueless like most writers. I wanted to make it big in the world of online writing. Naturally, I searched for weeks for the “best writing formula” that will help me get there. I wanted hacks, tips, tricks, courses, and techniques that will put me on the right path.
I thought I was investing in my writing education but really, I was only procrastinating. I spent all my time reading about writing while only publishing once in a while. Needless to say, I couldn’t get anywhere.
As soon as I realized this, I shut my ears off and focused all my attention on writing. 18 months later I have…
Published 400+ articles on Medium
Written 1000+ Linked In posts and Quora answers
Amassed 3M+ total views for my writing and I’ve grown over 60K+ followers across social media channels
Self-published a 100-page e-book
Build a highly-engaged email list of 2000+ subscribers
Created multiple in-depth email courses (10,000 words+)
Generated passive income each month
All this while still having a full-time job! I tell this not to brag, but to show you that you can achieve similar results.
There’s a lot of content out there that promises to turn you into a money-making wordsmith. I believe, however, that most of it are useless when you’re starting out.
In the beginning, you only need to focus on one thing – WRITING.
Rest everything is going to take care of itself. If you take this seriously, all your writing dreams will come true.
I’m not going to teach you how to write the perfect headline or how to format your article for a good reader experience in this email. Because while those things matter, they’re not something you need to focus on AT THE START.
Because IF you want to become a writer, your job is to write. To write every day, to write regularly. That’s what I have done. And you can do it too:
Why You Need To Play the Volume Game
Writers can be sentimental. They consider themselves “artists”. And artists are not told to produce more, they’re told to produce better, right?
Yet, this advice fails in the case of a new writer. The truth is, only when you’ve had sufficient practice, can you think about making a piece of art that earns money for years to come. So ironically, the road to becoming a Hemmingway is not to try writing better, but first, try writing as much as you can.
In the blogging world, the only way you can make your way into the consciousness of the reader as a new writer is volume. The math is simple — the more you write, the more people find you online and once they do, they enjoy a few of your articles.
A few of these articles then go viral and are regarded as good. Once that is done, algorithms on Medium and the Internet in general, start showing it to more and more people. That’s how you amass an audience even though you may not be as good of a writer.
The other way just doesn’t work. Trying to perfect an article but publishing only a couple of times a month isn’t going to cut it.
You have to realize this — writing more gives you practice. This practice in turn makes you a better writer every day. Simultaneously, more people discover your work and you gain readership.
I know what you’re thinking - saying this is easy, doing it isn’t. This is why I have a simple principle for you to follow that I like to call……