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Practice in Public

If you want to become a better writer, you have to hit the publish button. Notes and drafts don’t count. Practice in public helps writers get off the sidelines and turn pro.

3 Dead Simple Steps Turned One Post Into $6,282 (Anyone Can Do This)

The easy formula to turn casual posts into paid offers.

4 min readSep 25, 2025

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The first time I made $100 online, I thought I’d hacked the matrix.

I refreshed my bank app every ten minutes, convinced it would vanish. Fast forward to this week: I’m running a live cohort. Six one-hour sessions. Bringing in over $6,200. That’s $1,000 an hour.

And it all begin with a simple post.

But honestly? It still feels surreal. Like I’m going to wake up and find it was all a glitch. The good news this wasn’t luck. It was a process. Simple. Repeatable. Built for ordinary people like us who’ve tried before, failed before, and wondered if maybe we were too late.

Let me walk you through exactly what I did. So you can experience the magic of making money online.

The hidden power of short form content

Notes are Substack’s version of Twitter. They’re sneakier than they look

At first, I treated Notes like scraps. Quick thoughts. Half-formed ideas. Things I didn’t care enough to polish into full posts.

But then something odd happened.

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Practice in Public
Practice in Public

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If you want to become a better writer, you have to hit the publish button. Notes and drafts don’t count. Practice in public helps writers get off the sidelines and turn pro.

Derek Hughes
Derek Hughes

Written by Derek Hughes

I'm an old bloke with zero writing experience. In 18 months, I built a $35k writing business. Get my free 5-step system: https://www.derekhughes.biz/

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