When you write more, you earn more
Here’s how to write faster *and* better.
Success requires volume.
Writing & publishing more online means:
Writing better
Getting seen by more people
Getting more subscribers
Getting more ideas (appetite comes with eating)
If you look at the world’s best solopreneurs, all of them will tell you content is the key to success, and the more, the better.
Joanna Wiebe, 7-figure copywriter, says to her students in CopySchool that if they “don’t start writing authority-building content right now, I will lose my sh*t.”
Shonda Rhymes, the screenwriter behind Grey’s Anatomy and Bridgerton, says in her Masterclass that “all successful writers write A LOT.”
Tim Denning, 7-figure blogger, started his jaw-dropping business with the goal of being the most prolific writer on the internet. Not the best, not the richest. The most prolific — because he knew that would lead to him being among the best and richest.
Eve Arnold, a 6-figure online writer & marketer, still writes 20–25 articles per month on Medium, plus runs a newsletter with 18,000 subscribers, plus shows up on X.
I could go on and on, but I know you get it.
The question is this: how can you *possibly* write & publish SO MUCH in a sustainable way if you also have:
Full-time job
A relationship
Children
Hobbies
All of the above
You can!
You just have to learn to write faster.
For the longest time, I thought it wasn’t realistic. I thought I wanted to be a writer, not a robot pumping out content. I thought that’s not what creatives do. I thought all these people pumping out content were scammers, cheaters, something was off about them.
The truth? I just didn’t want to change. I wanted to stay in my comfy zone of a poor creative.
But when I changed, my results changed.
The reality is this: to write & publish more, you should learn to write faster and be strategic about publishing.
Here’s how.
Secret to Success: Write & Publish More
In this newsletter:
Psychological strategies to help you write faster (and better).
Beat perfectionism for good.
Train your brain to focus.
When you’re unclear and run out of ideas, do this.
How to write confidently. For paid subscribers only.
Science says you should do this to unlock creativity & write faster. For paid subscribers only.
2. Productivity strategies to help you write faster (and better). For paid subscribers only.
Psychological strategies to help you write faster (and better).
Tony Robbins says success is 80% psychology and 20% strategy. For the longest time, I chose to ignore this. Don’t be me.
So much of how you manage your time is psychology.
Example: I used to spend too much time on finding an idea that felt right.
Let’s address a few psychological problems that slow you down and keep you from sounding like yourself.
Beat perfectionism for good.
Perfectionism isn’t a category, it’s a scale.
We’re all somewhere along that scale, and if you’re an online creator, my guess is your perfectionist score is higher than the average.
Perfectionism slows you down by:
Keeping you stuck on finding the right idea (as I was)
Making you postpone writing
Making you postpone publishing
Making you edit way too long
There’s a 3-step process I use to beat perfectionism:
Step 1: Write a crappy first draft. Just put it all on paper. Be a mess on purpose.
Step 2: Step away for a day. Or at least a few hours.
Step 3: Edit for an hour. 2 hours max. Give yourself an editing deadline, then hit publish.
Whew! Done.
Do that long enough and it will become second nature to post your thoughts online even when they’re not perfect.
Train your brain to focus.
The more you multi-task, the more you train your brain to get distracted.
Suddenly, you can’t focus for 5 minutes. The brain needs its break; its variety — that’s what it’s used to.
If you find it hard to focus, start working in focused stretches of at least 20–25 minutes. Then slowly increase those. You can take 1–2 min breaks when you need them.
Some people time themselves. I don’t like that, but I do make sure to leave my phone in the other room, get water and close down unnecessary tabs.
The more focused work you do, the easier it will be to focus quickly. When you learn to focus quickly and stay focused for longer, your productivity will explode.
When you’re unclear and run out of ideas, do this.
When everything in my brain turns into a hot mess (which happens at least once a week), I stop and get a break.
Then I go back to the reader.
Because this is not about you, right? So what are your readers’ problems? Their goals? Their desperate needs and desires?
I write these down. Then… Clarity.
How to write confidently.
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