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Gina Khanna's avatar

Thank you for sharing this! I found it very useful and motivating!

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Cyn's avatar

This is great advice! Thank you! I love writing, but I love proofreading even more! I find errors in most everything I read! Good writers need proofreaders (see your number 4, 3rd paragraph, last sentence)! Let me know if I can be of service!😊

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Frances Ray's avatar

David, you are one generous guy. I never considered making real money from writing anything apart from a needle in a haystack best seller. Thank you!

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Victory Palace's avatar

Thanks for all this wonderful information. I’d love to be able to leverage some of this into a full time writing career (as opposed to being in day job land).

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Mike and Hannah's avatar

I love that you mention Nicolas Cole. His book is packed with practical tips and I think I can recognize some of his techniques in your post like 1/3/1 👀 Thanks for the great tips and the reminder about compounding. Metrics are good in one way but also super distracting and useless in others. Enjoy the process and let compounding work its magic 🤟🏻

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Patrick Reynolds's avatar

Yes enjoy the process. The means of writing for ourselves can put weight the ends.

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Victor Correra's avatar

It’s been a while since I saw so much actionable tips in one single article. Damn!!!

You’ve made me realize I’m (99% sure) doing something wrong. And I think the answer is in your article... to hangout where businesses hang out. This is genius! Thank you for showing a new way of doing things!!!

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Precious Mumzumi's avatar

This is lovely and an encouragement to all writers. I am now 5 months on substack and published 21 articles so far

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Cyn's avatar

You’re a very compelling writer! I just subscribed, at the lifetime discount, and for your writing course! A two-for! You’ve inspired me to get back at it! 😜

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WENDY TOMLINSON's avatar

Really interesting read as always. I love the bit aout most writers focusing on their results too early. Whilst this is natural, the early results are not a good measure of what's possible and I think this is true for most things and not just writing.

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Masaru's avatar

This is great! I’ve never been a fan of Medium personally, but it’s good to know the potential of the platform.

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Charlotte Pendragon's avatar

Thank you, very useful information I can apply!

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Ericka Ige's avatar

Just the thing i needed to see! Thank you for sharing

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Dan Toruno ㊥'s avatar

Thanks for sharing your experience and being so transparent! 🙌

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Kristy Schecher's avatar

I agree!!! It’s very confusing!

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