![]() ![]() I try yoga positions (but try those in a public toilet or in a train loo), peppermint, windeze, buscopan, everything just started fennel. ![]() I think this is pretty mild compared to some of your experiences and has to be fixable. (My wife is complaining she is unable to stop breaking wind due to some things she eats, I say be careful what you wish for. Stop writing for people who’d gladly watch your death and feel nothing.What stops me in my tracks, literally (another failed attempt to travel), seems to be gas that builds up that I just can't get rid of leaving me sometimes struggling to even think. This easy-to-reach place is the nirvana of writing on the internet. That’s when you feel like you’ve earned the money from your words. The goal of online writing is to put yourself on the line. In fact they’re going out of fashion, so pretty soon employers will have to beg someone to earn a capped salary and ignore the opportunity the internet has created. Your most successful writing will be when you have the courage to speak your truth or say what’s on your mind - when you say what you really think, not what some dumb boss in a monkey suit at work wants you to think.Īnd if you’re worried about career risk, don’t be. I’m surrounded by people who are good at it and earn 6 and 7 figures from it. I’ve been doing this online writing gig for 8 years. This is what your most successful writing looks like I want to live, therefore I must write from the heart and block out all the noise. Then all I would have done is blended into the background of society out of fear generated by unpaid critics who go home each night miserable and cry themselves to sleep. Whenever I start to give a crap about what someone may think of my precious writing, I imagine the truth: The only way to compete with AI is to have some personality and tell human stories an AI will never be able to experience, and therefore, describe. ) Safe writing is about to be outlawedĪrtificial intelligence is now smart enough to write bland content full of platitudes and ideas that won’t trigger anyone. Nat says if your self-talk is “ehhh maybe I shouldn’t write about that” you should 100% write about it. 99% of people will be fine with what you write or mature enough to click away if it’s not something they want to read. The thing is you can’t write for the 1% of crazies. The comments section may snag a few filthy mofos looking to place their dirty laundry on the lounge room carpet of your writing.Īnd when people get upset, no matter how mentally tough you are, it might make you feel bad. You’ll unintentionally offend a few people. Strong views like these can cause a small percentage of people to become triggered and get angry. They look danger right in the face and say “come get me punk.” Just like Nat, I feel bad because these articles are contrarian and sometimes polarizing. Millennials Have (Finally) Figured out Bigger Salaries Are a Scam.You’re Missing the Point About Elon’s Purchase of Twitter.Unsplash Is Officially Dead - Here Are the Smarter Alternatives.Layoffs at Rich Tech Companies Show You Can’t Trust Any Employer.I’ve felt bad about writing certain articles, too. The problem happened again when Nat wrote an article called “Yes, You Should Delete Facebook” which got read by 676,000 people. It unintentionally defamed him and made the internet a worse place. Instead, people read the article and hurled f-bombs at Gary Vee. The goal of the piece was to critique the bad idea that hustle culture is good for us. The article made him a lot of money and got read by 461,000 people. Nat says he felt bad about writing a popular article on Gary Vee called “No More Struggle P*rn.” He got on the gravy train of the “ Every Bundle” that succeeded as a newsletter on then quit and went out on their own with a few other popular newsletters. The best writing can make you feel badīlogger Nat Eliason is a titan of the online writing world. The way to avoid playing it too safe is to feel afraid when you hit publish. Isaiah suggests we should avoid writing bland stuff as much as possible. ![]() It’s fast food full of calories but terrible for your brain’s information diet. Most of what I read is like McDonald’s Big Macs. It’s just so hard to find good writing anymore. Why do I do this? Because great writing inspires me to do my best writing. Straight away I thought “I feel like that too, brother.” I spend much of my time as a writer starving to find writing that makes me come alive. Writer Isaiah McCall said “so much online writing makes me feel lukewarm. The smart way to figure out if your writing is too safe So they follow this method for a while and eventually burn out. That’s what most writers accidentally think when they set out to write online (don’t worry, I did too). ![]()
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