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The 10 Laws of Success as a Digital Writer
Follow them or perish
When I started writing online, I sucked harder than a granny eating a gobstopper.
But I kept at it.
And now, nine years later, I can confidently say that I am slightly above average (pumps fist in the air).
Which is fine by me.
Above average is good enough to earn money, and I’d rather do that than learn how to use a semicolon any day.
But how did I go from a sucky writer to a working writer?
I learned the laws of digital writing. Learn these, or your potential will always be just out of reach.
10. Always publish your finished articles
“F*ck it,” I thought to myself as I read over a finished article and considered shelving it. “you wrote the damn thing. You might as well publish it. Worst case scenario is that no one reads it, which is exactly what would happen if you kept in unpublished.”
And so I hit publish. Nothing happened. The feeling came back, and I hit publish. Nothing happened. Then, an article I published went on to get 250,000 views and become my most popular article of all time.
