%% ID: 13204953 Updated: 2022-01-28 %% ![](https://readwise-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/static/images/article3.5c705a01b476.png) # About Title: [[Other/Obsidian Starter Vault(Second Brain)/Readwise 1/Articles/I Spent Three Months Collecting the Best Underrated Writing Tips on the Internet]] Author: [[Tim Denning]] Category: #articles Number of Highlights: ==31== Last Highlighted: *2021-11-26* Readwise URL: https://readwise.io/bookreview/13204953 Source URL: https://medium.com/illumination/i-spent-three-months-collecting-the-best-underrated-writing-tips-on-the-internet-39ae0e33800c # Highlights The focus is usually on a writing platform rather than writing itself. This leads innocent advice-givers to drift into the realm of fortune-telling. ^278320061 --- When your mind is full, dump your thoughts onto a page — especially if there’s something you can’t stop thinking about. When your mind is empty, fill it up with books ^278320062 --- It’s called** best selling** author, not best-writing author — Robert Kiyosaki ^278320063 --- Throw your English degree in the bin. The writers who can package ideas into stories that sell the message win every time ^278320064 --- 90% of what they have to offer is free. ^278320065 --- If you seek to earn a living as a writer then follow the $0 strategy. Write as much content as you can for free without the paywall. Only put up a paywall between you and the reader when your bills stop getting paid. Short-term pain for long-term writing growth. ^278320066 --- Sitting down with a blank page is the worst idea in the world. What I do is write headlines and a few dot points a couple of days in advance. I can always scratch what I’ve pre-prepared, but at least I have something more beautiful than a butt-ugly blank page. ^278320067 --- When you do you’ll stop people in their tracks and create a mountain of comments. ^278320068 --- The purpose of writing isn’t to have people agree with you. It’s to make people think. Do that and you’ll be unstoppable as a writer. ^278320069 --- The platform is not the problem. It’s you. — ^278320070 --- No social media app is constantly changing its algorithm every day to screw with your writing. Throw the tarot cards in the bin. ^278320071 --- When views drop, increase quality, decrease excuses. ^278320072 --- Writing is 50% thinking, 5% typing, 45% deleting the bad parts.Get to — and I cannot stress this enough — the point. ^278320073 --- Especially cut the throats of words like “really, potentially, and actually.” They’re weak as piss. ^278320074 --- A lot of it is about loneliness. We sit in our house writing blog posts and then hit Publish ^278320075 --- People are vastly underestimating the demand for intelligent, high-quality writing on the Internet — David Perell ^278320076 --- there is … and most of it sucks. You’ve got to scroll for hours on some platforms to find one good article. ^278320077 --- Work on the quality of your writing and most of the common problems will magically disappear, like the teeth the tooth fairy takes away when you’re a kid. ^278320078 --- There’s no such thing as writer’s block. There’s simply a fear of bad writing. Do enough bad writing and some good writing is bound to show up. — Seth ^278320079 --- Sit down. Write a few bad sentences. Keep writing till it gets good ^278320080 --- Don’t under-research either. If you sit down with no pre-prepared ideas and zero research, you’re going to get your face ripped off. Write down ten headlines two days before. Use them when you sit down to write. ^278320081 --- Once you get into writing, it takes over your brain and your fingers hit the keyboard. ^278320082 --- How to build a mini traffic machine as a writer:— Write one article every week (SEO)— Repurpose it as a thread (social)— Send it to your list (email)— Post it in relevant communities (referrals)Create once ^278320083 --- Alternating between single-sentence paragraphs and multi-sentence paragraphs is the fastest way to make your writing more accessible.If the headline and the first sentence and the subheads all hook their attention, they start to read. — Nicolas Cole ^278320084 --- Personal stories that start with a killer opening line outperform everything ^278320085 --- brain-busting first sentence followed by a personal story can hook you for 6–8 minutes without a problem. ^278320086 --- Light a fire inside before writing ^278320087 --- Feel fire before you write. Or don’t do it.I don’t write an article until I’m feeling it! I need to feel fire about what I’m saying because I’m trying to light that same fire in my readers. Until I feel that fire, I don’t hit publish. — Benjamin Hardy ^278320088 --- Bring your energy levels up with music or exercise before you dare talk to readers and take up their time. ^278320089 --- Man, the angle you choose to write from is what makes you different.” ^278320090 --- Don’t pick the obvious angle to every story. Otherwise, you sound like a cliche writer that will drown in a sea of similar writing. No need to get fancy. Just choose a bizarre angle. ^278320091