Thread by @dbustac

@dickiebush’s Ship 30 for 30 changed my writing game forever.

• It cemented a daily writing habit.
• It accelerated all my feedback loops.
• It changed the way I approach distribution.

These are the 10 most important lessons from my experience 👇

1/ The fastest way to change your habits is to change your tribe.

When you’re surrounded by people who write and ship essays every day, you quickly become the kind of person who does that too.

Want to become a writer? Hang out with writers and do what they do.

2/ Writing is a muscle.

The more you use it, the stronger it gets.

Shipping an essay every day forces you to push your writing muscle to its limits, accelerating your growth by 10x.

3/ You don’t know what people want to read about: you’re assuming you do.

Your job is to validate your assumptions as fast as possible.

To do that, you need to create content the lean way.

https://twitter.com/dbustac/status/1350574378287845381?s=21

4/ At the beginning, post on crowded platforms like Twitter instead of your blog.

Very few people will read and engage with your blog when you’re new.

This means no feedback to validate your assumptions.

This is no bueno.

https://twitter.com/dbustac/status/1349831351692877824?s=21

5/ Writing needs to be intrinsically rewarding.

Write about things you’re genuinely passionate about.

Otherwise, it won’t be sustainable in the long term.

6/ Essentially, writing online is about grabbing and maintaining people’s attention.

It’s a psychological game.

When you understand this, you become more intentional and start approaching things differently.

7/ Let other people judge your work and decide whether it’s good or not.

Sometimes the essays you’re not so sure about end up doing much better than the ones you thought were going to kill it.

You never know.

8/ Note-taking is overrated.

It easily becomes a form of procrastination.

Your library of content, not your notes, should be your second brain.

The ideas you write about are the ones that really stick and stay with you.

9/ Nobody will remember your first crappy essays.

Stop staring at the “publish” button.

Just hit it.

If it resonates, double down.

If not, try something new and move on.

10/ Impostor syndrome never goes away.

Even the most seasoned and successful writers struggle with it.

Learn to deal with it and embrace it.

Don’t let it stop you or hold you down.

You’re in charge.

If you want to catapult your writing game, I strongly recommend you join the program.

You can still join February’s cohort, but hurry up — there are very few spots left.

enroll.ship30for30.com/ship-30-for-30…

For more writing advice, resources and tools you should check The Online Writing Bible:

gum.co/writingbible