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Share writing tips and hacks with other writers out there.
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@rison
7 Journaling Techniques That Can Change Your Life

The Power of Writing Down Your Thoughts

3min
AI Key Takeaways
  • Journaling can be helpful in clarifying and understanding thoughts and feelings, and can help to reduce the effects of anxiety and depression.
  • The brain dump technique that was used during the withdrawal process was helpful in developing other journaling practices.
@waffleseshh
Looking forward to reading this books. Definitely added to the reading list!! So much value in this podcast! #writing #mindset
Someday Is Today: Achieve Your Goals And Live Without Regret - Matthew Dicks

Some Day Is Today

8min
AI Key Takeaways
  • The speaker is willing to give 30 minutes of their time to fledgling writers
  • The speaker likes to meet writers at McDonald's
  • The speaker listened to a writer's book idea during a meeting at McDonald's
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@martine
#writting
REPLAY: Derek Sivers On Life Advice, Writing and Entrepreneurship (BONUS EPISODE)

How to Write a Book

1min
AI Key Takeaways
  • It is easier to write a book if you think of it as an ideasharing exercise, rather than a serious project requiring a lot of time and effort.
  • It is important to share articles as you write them, so that others can get a sense of what you are working on.
  • It is best to have a few ideas per article, and to focus on sharing these ideas as you write them.
@jeffbrown
Blogs and Platforms and Permission (E)

Why You Should Have a Blog

2min
AI Key Takeaways
  • Having a blog is a way to discipline yourself and to think more clearly.
  • It's important to reach a few, the smallest viable audience, to serve their needs and connect them with each other and with our ideas.
  • It's worth the journey.
@richard
#writing Write consistently. Keep practising. It's difficult.
#164 Ravi Gupta: The Realities of Success

Writing advice: Embrace the difficulty and write about what you care about

2min
AI Key Takeaways
  • Great writers write every day even if it's difficult for them
  • Choose topics that you actually care about instead of writing what you think someone else will find interesting
  • The best writers do multiple drafts and versions before producing great content
@richard
Great hack for making sure it's easy to get started on something. Leave something unfinished. #productivity #writing
#572 - Life Hacks 210

How to Hack Productivity with the Zygonic Effect

2min
AI Key Takeaways
  • Leaving sentences part finished can help with productivity because it makes it easier to restart a project.
  • This can be done by closing out the day by finishing sentences, which activates the open loop system.
@sameergudekar
#mindset #habits #ideas
#648: James Clear, Atomic Habits — Simple Strategies for Building (and Breaking) Habits, Questions for Personal Mastery and Growth, Tactics for Writing and Launching a Mega-Bestseller, Finding Leverage, and More

Ideas Are Downstream from Information Flows

1min
AI Key Takeaways
  • Crafting great information flows is important,.
  • It's important to be selective in what we consume.
@hmm
#advice #creativity #writing #mindset
Ep. 193 - Brian Koppelman: How to Deliver Every Single Time

Writing Tip by Show Creator of Billions: Calculate Less; You Can't Game It

5min
AI Key Takeaways
  • It is important to focus on writing what is fascinating to you, rather than writing what is common advice.
  • It is important to avoid calculating when writing, as this can be a distraction.
  • It is important to be aware of the potential consequences of pursuing creative endeavors.
@richard
#ChatGPT can do mediocre and better. So our #writing has to be better than mediocre.
#164 Ravi Gupta: The Realities of Success

How to focus more on raising the quality of your writing

1min
AI Key Takeaways
  • To be successful, a product must be 10x better and fundamentally change the experience rather than just being a little better
  • Consumers are divinely discontent and even amazing products can become the new normal
  • Reading written work out loud can help improve its quality and demonstrate the quality of thinking.
@vicente
#Neuro #writting
296. Neuroscience Meets Psychology | Dr. Andrew Huberman

Essay Writing - The power of having a question to answer

1min
AI Key Takeaways
  • When writing an essay, you should have a question in mind that you regard as worthwhile to find the answer to.
  • If you are assigned a topic, you should find something within the topic that grips you and provides you with the motivation to move forward with the essay.
@hiro
Unleash Your Self-Publishing Success | Chandler Bolt

Three thIngs to be a Compelling Writer

2min
AI Key Takeaways
  • Writing must be entertaining, educational, and push the frontier of a beloved area
  • It's important to make sure written works create an emotional reaction
  • Entertainment is crucial to engage readers in any form of writing
@shantal
How Celeste Ng writes fiery prose

Writing Is a Tool for Thinking

2min
AI Key Takeaways
@samur
#creativity #creation
George Saunders on Writing and Transformation

Prototype, spot fun and focus iteration on that element

1min
AI Key Takeaways
  • A story has a kind of DNA that can be discovered by privileging the most high energy moments in it.
  • Being a master of a story is never possible, as a schmuck always remains.
  • Meditation is not what is being discussed.
@adamhaluska
E249: No.1 Habit & Procrastination Expert: We've Got ADHD Wrong! Break Any Habit & Never Be Distracted!

Making Time for Traction in Writing - Overcoming Writer's Block

45sec
AI Key Takeaways
@bobbyhiddn
A good talk through process.
Sci-fi writer Andy Weir doesn't love writing

The Evolution of Aridian Biology

2min
AI Key Takeaways
  • Andy's intrinsic motivation is to come up with interesting stories for others to enjoy, and he loves the beginning and end of the process, but he doesn't like the inbetween.
  • Andy relies on selfdiscipline to keep himself going during the parts of the process he doesn't enjoy.
@JamesWahba
How Writers Can Be More Productive Using AI with Ben Tossell

The Importance of Having a Writing Partner

3min
AI Key Takeaways
  • Help is super awesome and helps with outlining essays.
  • Help is a great tool for writing partners, as it helps focus on specific aspects of writing.
  • AI tools can be helpful in improving writing skills.
@shantal
3 Daily Habits To Improve Your Life w/ James Clear EP 1395

Maximizing Value Creation Strategies for Successful Book Writing

3min
AI Key Takeaways
@am
Tiago Forte // Building a Second Brain in Practice + Sustained Behavior Change

Use a "Second Brain" to produce creative work without starting from a blank page/canvas

2min
AI Key Takeaways
  • Writing a successful blog or article is a chaotic, messy process that is easier and more effective when you start with a blank page.
  • Avoid starting with a blank page to avoid suppressing your creativity.
@coachwillcope
NBC 811: Karen Cappello: Turn Your Coaching Skills into Coaching Revenue!

How to Create Trust and Intimacy in Your Writing

1min
AI Key Takeaways
  • The key to a productive sales conversation is fully listening to the other person and making them feel heard and understood
  • Coaching skills such as creating trust and intimacy, and making agreements with clients are important in sales and marketing too
  • Acknowledging the listener is important in writing effective content for marketing
@batkerson
Gripping your reader from the beginning #writingcraft
Crafting Your Novel’s Key Moments With John Matthew Fox

How to Write a Good First Chapter

3min
AI Key Takeaways
  • The first chapter of a book is one of the biggest Lynch Pin moments and getting it wrong can cause readers to put the book aside and not return to it.
  • There are four steps to getting the beginning of a book right, including delivering strong characterization in the first chapter.