Digital Writing Tip #1: It's your content. You can do anything you want with it.
Atomic Essays can become:
β’ Newsletters
β’ Landing page copy
β’ eBooks
β’ Digital Products
β’ Course material
β’ Scripts for podcast episodes
β’ Etc.
Digital Writing Tip #2: You make your headlines more compelling by increasing the voltage β‘οΈβ‘οΈβ‘οΈ
You can do this to your:
β’ WHAT?
β’ WHO?
β’ FEELING
β’ PROMISE
More description in any one of these parts of your headline = β‘οΈβ‘οΈβ‘οΈβ‘οΈβ‘οΈ
Digital Writing Tip #3: You are not the main character. Your reader is.
This means, even if you're telling "your story" or sharing "your insights," you have to find a way for it to relate to the reader's wants, needs, questions, and desires.
They should see themselves in you.
Digital Writing Tip #4: All content can be reverse-engineered in 4 buckets.
5 dead-simple steps to write a 60,000-word book in 30 daysβeven if you've never written a book before:π§΅
For context:
It took me 4 years to write my 1st book and it took me 4 months to write my 2nd book.
Now, I can write a 60,000 word book in 30 days.
Here's the framework:
1. Your book's Main Title/Subtitle is 80% of the work.
β’ What question (of the reader's) are you answering?
β’ What problem are you solving?
β’ What solution are you unlocking?
β’ How are you going to get there?
Don't start writing till you can answer these 4 questions.
This guy has published 83 novels and more than 200 short stories.
He is a towering figure in the world of writing.
All writers should memorize these 14 epic tips from Stephen King's book "On Writing":π§΅
Tip #1: Above all others: read and write a lot.
Your fingers have to learn the feel of the keys and your mind must acquire the habit of story-making.
Combine the two and copy a short story by hand to absorb the style.
Tip #2: Stories consist of three parts.
β’ What happens: Narrative moves the story forward.
β’ How it happens: Description creates a vivid reality for the reader.
β’ Who said what: Dialogue brings characters to life with speech.