Thread by @OneJKMolina

I've written a thousand words a day for 18 months now.

Here's 25 writing lessons (and I bet you haven't heard at least 1)

#1:

#2: Edit when you're high energy, low creativity (morning)

Write when you're low energy, high creativity (nights, post-workouts)

#3: Forgive yourself for bad writing.

The more you write, the more chances you have of writing good stuff.

Relevant:

Don't write from a place of neediness.

Whoever needs the girl, doesn't get the girl.

Whoever needs the reader, doesn't get the reader.

Ironically, not caring makes it so much better.

Read the people whose writing you want to have.

Honorable mentions: Bukowski and Hemingway.

A Bukowski gem:

When it comes to marketing, your writing is only as good as the amount of money it brings.

"Your customer has to see your add 7 times before they buy" is bullshit

You're just not good at direct response

Copy more.

https://twitter.com/david_perell/status/1403350637685968900?s=20

Buy a notebook.

Your best writing will come to you when you're overlooking the city, with 200 pounds over your shoulders or walking through nature.

Not when you sit down to write.

These are my notebooks over the last 2 years.

Writing on 1 and 2, I was making $0 a month.

Writing on 3, $250 a month.

On 4, $1,000 a month.

On the fifth one, I became financially free.

English isn't even my first language.

Keep going.

If you have to ask someone if they like your writing then you subconsciously know it's not that good.

99% of your commas could be periods.

"Write like you speak" is the second best advice I've ever received.

The first one is "know who you're writing to."

Writing a good 280 character tweet is harder than writing a 280 word email.

Relevant:

When you write you're gonna feel like you're the hero.

When you edit you're gonna feel like you're a sidekick.

All normal.

After ghostwriting for some of the top names on Twitter,

I'm convinced that the best growth hack is just doing really cool stuff and sharing what you learn along the way.

I've read dozens of books on copy and not one has taught me more than writing a sales letter that absolutely sucked

The paradox of writing:

The easier it is to read, the harder it is to write

My writing process:

1. Write
2. Do something else (sleep, work out, eat, walk)
3. Edit

All the ideas come out in 1, the good ones come out in 3, the best ones come out in 2.

You should never have writer's block.

If anything, it's a sign you're not doing enough cool stuff.

The best career advice I've received

Is to be A+ at one skill

And B at all the other important skills i.e. sales, marketing, strategy, writing.

Writing is way harder than thinking because thinking is jumping, but writing is walking.

The better the view, the better your writing.

This is a proven fact.

Pictured: Volcan de Agua in Guatemala.

If English isn't your first language, here's how I learned:

-Movies with English subs
-Phone and laptop in English
-Speak English with your siblings
-Hang out with English speakers
-Just speak it more

Immersion is the best teacher

"How do I get better at writing?"

Just. Write. More.

Please consider retweeting the top tweet if you learned something from this thread.

Talk soon,

- El Fantasma

https://twitter.com/OneJKMolina/status/1445381451516678158?s=20

I'll add one more.

Twitter works differently because it has a special lingo

See it play out at amilliontweets.com and watch what it does to your account

HUGE powerplay if you do this right.