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.

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Top Writers Quiet-Quit These Things (In This Sequence)

4 min readMar 21, 2025

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Writing has taught me the hardest lessons of my life.

It allows me to process what’s happened, and reliving the experience for a second time helps me *calmly* figure out what went wrong and how things could be mildly better next time.

(I struggle to see reason mid-rage).

Writing is quite literally the only thing that helps me step back, assess and see what’s actually going on. It’s the main reason I keep writing.

Here are some big lessons I’ve learned from the best people I see all over the internet.

1. Worrying about saying the same thing over and over

I’ve written before about the idea that content is an evolution.

Your thoughts and feelings are ever-evolving — sometimes you feel like you're repeating yourself but repetition is a key facet of learning. I’m not sure I’ve ever learned something all in one go.

Instead, like a seedling starting to grow I repeat everything I did yesterday and grow a little.

I used to worry I’d say the same thing over and over but actually on reflection my thoughts are a slight iteration of yesterday’s and tomorrow will be the same.

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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.

Eve Arnold
Eve Arnold

Written by Eve Arnold

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