I feel I would benefit immeasurably from this. Unfortunately, I’m not in California so this wouldn’t be feasible for me. Nor do I have enough post Karma to meet your standards.
The challenge of writing 30 blog posts in 30 days is exactly the kind of thing that excites me and in a pique of inspiration I’ve already written 23 post ideas. That alone has been surprisingly difficult. I would have expected I could easily generate 30 ideas. So already I have to measure my expectations. How much harder will writing the posts themselves be? How else will I be surprised.
The clincher for me was that Scott Alexander quote:
“Whenever I see a new person who blogs every day, it’s very rare that that never goes anywhere or they don’t get good. That’s like my best leading indicator for who’s going to be a good blogger.”
Seeing as how I won’t be able to join this residency or enjoy the mentorship and feedback – I’m wondering out aloud here: what else needs to be in place for that quote to ring true? (Aside from obviously rewrite, rewrite, and rewrite each post again). What rules should I impose on myself? What advice can I action? What factors do I need to control to maximize my chances of becoming a better writer by the end of the month?
If you want to get better, what you need to do can be summed up in a single word: write.
Anything beyond that depends on exactly what type of writer you want to be, so I’d need to know more specifics. Reading very frequently helps too in my experience.
If you want to get better, what you need to do can be summed up in a single word: write.
If the answer was writing more, then I’d be already be a great writer. I’m not. I write everyday but it’s meandering nonsense.
So clearly just writing isn’t enough, but what is enough?
Anything beyond that depends on exactly what type of writer you want to be, so I’d need to know more specifics.
Two things: 1. responding to emails and text messages promptly and without ambiguity in any situation, business, organizing date night, catching up with friends, giving friends advice or counsel, 2. making online content which advertises my skills as a video maker—so basically writing scripts for videos which are easy to say, engaging, concise, advertise my skills, but also can get picked up by the algo (instagram, youtube, or tiktok).
I feel I would benefit immeasurably from this. Unfortunately, I’m not in California so this wouldn’t be feasible for me. Nor do I have enough post Karma to meet your standards.
The challenge of writing 30 blog posts in 30 days is exactly the kind of thing that excites me and in a pique of inspiration I’ve already written 23 post ideas. That alone has been surprisingly difficult. I would have expected I could easily generate 30 ideas. So already I have to measure my expectations. How much harder will writing the posts themselves be? How else will I be surprised.
The clincher for me was that Scott Alexander quote:
Seeing as how I won’t be able to join this residency or enjoy the mentorship and feedback – I’m wondering out aloud here: what else needs to be in place for that quote to ring true? (Aside from obviously rewrite, rewrite, and rewrite each post again). What rules should I impose on myself? What advice can I action? What factors do I need to control to maximize my chances of becoming a better writer by the end of the month?
If you want to get better, what you need to do can be summed up in a single word: write.
Anything beyond that depends on exactly what type of writer you want to be, so I’d need to know more specifics. Reading very frequently helps too in my experience.
If the answer was writing more, then I’d be already be a great writer. I’m not. I write everyday but it’s meandering nonsense.
So clearly just writing isn’t enough, but what is enough?
Two things: 1. responding to emails and text messages promptly and without ambiguity in any situation, business, organizing date night, catching up with friends, giving friends advice or counsel, 2. making online content which advertises my skills as a video maker—so basically writing scripts for videos which are easy to say, engaging, concise, advertise my skills, but also can get picked up by the algo (instagram, youtube, or tiktok).