Just do the work, learn, and put your ideas into action.

I graduated from Columbia College Chicago with a degree in fiction writing. Yeah, that’s a thing. My classes consisted of Intro to Fiction, Journal & Sketchbook, and all sorts of other classes I’m fairly certain my finance-studying peers considered one standard deviation away from The History of Crayons. But I was a slightly different breed than my satchel-carrying, animé-collecting classmates. All throughout college, I asked myself the same question over and over again: “How am I ever going to make a living as a writer?”

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Two brain networks appear to play a key role in creativity, according to new research published in the journal NeuroImage. The findings confirm past research that suggested increased cooperation between brain regions linked to both cognitive control and spontaneous processes is associated with heightened creative ability.

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Claps and likes don’t pay the bills.

Write shorter. Much shorter.

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It’s easy to burn out when writing regular content for your blog. Sometimes the ideas won’t flow and other times there are too many ideas to put into words. But don’t worry. The greatest minds in the copywriting world have already found the solutions.

An unpublished writer describes how she built a five-figure Twitter following within a year, by helping other writers and engaging on a personal level

Many people have mentioned to me that they wish they were better at crafting headlines for their stories. I’ve discovered that while I don’t always nail my headline, there are a number of folks who struggle with headlines much more than I do.

If I was starting over, these are the tools I’d turn to.

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In just five years, rapper Tupac Shakur produced more than 700 songs. By 35, inventor Thomas Edison had more than 100 patents to his name. In his lifetime, author Isaac Asimov wrote nearly 500 books. Each of these creators was prolific. And each produced some incredibly high-quality work.

The modern writing world is very much a blessing and a curse. 

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You can do it too, you just have to put yourself in the right frame of mind

Adapted from the essay “Thirty Recommendations for Good Writing Habits” in Essays One. * The following are just my personal pieces of advice.