Writing Online Is a Video Game with Cheat Codes. Here’s How to Play and Win.
The average writer wastes years writing books that no one will ever find on Amazon because they think writing is the hack.
Gamification makes us take action.
Writing online is hard because it’s easy to get trapped by perfectionism, permission-seeking, fear, and overthinking.
But when you gamify writing everything gets easier. It’s why I’ve been able to write online every day for more than 10 years.
Here’s how to turn writing online into a video game (so you can make 6-figures):
Write 10 headlines every day
Without ethically gaining attention, you’ll never be a writer.
The romantics don’t want to hear this but it’s true. The simplest way to grab attention is with a good headline. But none of us are born with the blueprint to do it right out of the womb.
Blogger James Altucher taught me to master headlines by writing ten new ones every day. If you can’t come up with headlines, then take an existing headline from anywhere and rewrite it.
Headlines are the seeds of new stories.
