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Skills I’d Spend The Most Time Learning If I Had To Start As A Writer From Scratch

Must-have skills to get your writing business up and running, 10x faster than others.

Anangsha Alammyan
The Startup

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Image from the author’s Instagram.

Do you aspire to be a writer?

If you said yes, then you must love writing. You want to spend your days spilling words on blank pages (read: Google Docs).

Sadly, a writer can’t only write if you also want to monetize your writing business. When I say I’m a writer, most people assume I write the entire day.

That’s far from reality.

Writing only makes up about 20% of my daily workload.

I spend the rest of my time on administrative tasks to cement my business’s roots. I have to invest time and resources into my business to keep it thriving and aspire for 100x growth in the future.

If you dream of being a full-time writer, this article is for you.

Here are the top 3 skills I’d have learned if I were to start my writing career from scratch in 2023.

1. Writing with the goal of converting

Keeping the most underrated skill at the top: you have to be good at writing emails.

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