%% ID: 13222792 Updated: 2022-01-29 %% ![](https://readwise-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/static/images/article3.5c705a01b476.png) # About Title: [[Other/Obsidian Starter Vault(Second Brain)/Readwise 1/Articles/What I Learned From 3 Months of Writing on Quora]] Author: [[Chris Wojcik]] Category: #articles Number of Highlights: ==24== Last Highlighted: *2022-01-28* Readwise URL: https://readwise.io/bookreview/13222792 Source URL: https://medium.com/swlh/what-i-learned-from-3-months-of-writing-on-quora-7146127b38b3 # Highlights I’ve felt like an absolute crazy person for publishing on Quora every single day ^278699041 --- No matter what I tried or how much I wrote, I couldn’t get noticed on Quora. ^278699042 --- These are all of the mistakes, lessons, and improvements that I’ve made during my first 3 months of writing a Quora answer every single day ^278699043 --- Stop “writing content” and start telling stories ^278699044 --- The secret to how I post every single day seems like cheating. I do write every day, but I don’t necessarily write a new Quora answer every day. ^278699045 --- it’s not quantity that wins on Quora (or any other writing site), it’s quality. ^278699046 --- You have to write good articles, tell good stories, and write answers that make people feel something, learn something, and want to know more about you. ^278699047 --- Ancient writing advice holds true here: show, don’t tell. ^278699048 --- The perfect writing is imperfect ^278699049 --- I’ve struggled with perfectionism for most of my life, and my “volume-based” approach to writing is actually an effort to correct those perfectionist tendencies. ^278699050 --- Art (writing) is just how I manifest that teaching. ^278699051 --- Good content on Quora is an exploration into your lived experience, imperfections, and triumphs. ^278699052 --- Most people are more qualified than you. Get over it. ^278699053 --- Who am I, as a 24-year-old Jiu-Jitsu fighter with a tiny little Medium blog, to say anything about anything? ^278699054 --- But it’s that mindset that stalls all creative progress. Telling myself that I “don’t have what it takes” is the best way to make sure that I never have what it takes. ^278699055 --- Credibility is built, it doesn’t appear magically in front of you. All fingers point to “start writing right now” as the solution to solving your lack of qualification problem ^278699056 --- How I really went viral on Quora ^278699057 --- I’ve made up for a lack of experience with an increased amount of output. ^278699058 --- Doing this didn’t make me that much better of a writer, but it did give me more opportunities to spin the wheel of virality on the internet. ^278699059 --- The reason that it went viral was that it was a decent piece of content, with a good image attached, and it was put in the right place on the website. ^278699060 --- I learned how to better play the Quora game by playing it more than most people. ^278699061 --- Not bad for something that took me 5 minutes. ^278699062 --- Learning how to blend your stories within the platforms that you’re writing on is an art within itself, and to me, it’s what makes writing online fun and exciting. ^278699063 --- If you throw 100 of your best pieces of content at the internet wheel of virality, you never know what’s going to take off. ^278699064