5 Quiet Habits That Created 356 Articles in 18 Months (With a 9–5)

How I cracked the code and became a consistent writer

Derek Hughes
Practice in Public

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I’ve been writing on the internet for 18 months.

I’ve built a profitable business ($2500/month) alongside my day job. It’s been a wild ride. What’s happened has blown my mind. I feel blessed and grateful. I never planned this. I started writing to see what would happen.

And there’s no reason why this can’t happen to you. If I were to narrow my success down to one single ingredient. It’d be this:

Write consistently over a long time

This sounds easy. But it’s incredibly difficult. Nothing else matters as much. Consistency doesn’t guarantee success. But inconsistency guarantees failure.

What if you became a content machine? Where would you be if you wrote consistently for 12 months? I’ve written 356 articles. It’s (almost) impossible not to find success when you do that.

Anyone can have a burst of energy. But to write day after day. Week after week. For years. This is tough to do. I struggled at first.

Let me show you the 5 tactics that turned me into a writing machine.

1. Defeat your enemy

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Derek Hughes
Practice in Public

Building a $30k part-time business. Showing writers how to grow theirs. Coaching and courses to elevate your writing. Free course www.derekhughes.biz