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Your challenge is to tweet once per day? That's 140 characters.
Try 140 words instead. Twitter isn't worth the time.
People, if you want to be a writer, if you want to develop the skill of writing...
This shit is not going to cut it.
25 words a MINUTE is the bare minimum.
That's 125 words in 5 minutes.
250 words in 10 minutes.
500 words in 20 minutes.
1500 words in an hour.
Now, I get it.
"I procrastinate looking at the empty page. How could I ever do 1500 words in an hour?"
"But but but my favorite novelist Penny McInkwell says she writes only 5.67 words a day."
Here's the thing. Writing is a skill.
And you want to be a professional, right?
So figure your shit out.
How do you go from "I struggle with writing a tweet a day" to "I wrote the first draft of a 5000 words short story this morning"?
Well, why can't you?
Try. Struggle. Analyze how it went. Research and think about what you can do differently.
Rinse and repeat.
Now let's get to the matter at hand.
Action-faking.
I'll be back. I will.
Nah, you stay right here.
Your problem is that you're putting the cart before the horses.
Learn to be a proficient writer first, then you decide what kind of writing business you want to start.
This seems to be a new trend: people want to build a skill-based business without building the skill first.
Like all the low IQ peasants who come on here to ask advice on how to do X for clients of their own god-forsaken marketing agency. They sold themselves as marketing strategists and want elementary marketing advice on this forum. Literal scammers.
Don't do that. It's not going to get you anywhere.
So your first order of business is writing different stuff and develop the craft.
Learn to write more & faster.
That means, actually start pumping out stuff, and learn to maximize the amount of content you build in X time, as well as the time you can write before your brain goes on the fritz.
Learn to write different things. That means content, copy, fiction. Explore styles and go for different topics, different genres. Flex the writing muscle.
Study the craft itself. Read good content, analyze what makes it good. Read about writing, about formulas and structures and techniques. Apply, test what you learn.
And then you start actually using that skill in the real world.
You can freelance for copy and content. You can write niche sites. You can self publish on Amazon.
This is what you thread is about now.
Do the work. Don't run away.
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