Earlier this week Medium made a drastic change that directly impacts publications like ours, like HackerNoon, FreeCodeCamp, and BeYourself. These publications are based on curating content from 100s if not 1000s of writers to provide their communities with the content they are looking for on a daily basis. Their goal is to amplify the voices of everyday people to inform, teach, and support their readers.

I get asked all the time by my adoring fans (aka the two people who will read this), “Lion, how did you get such a kick-ass writing style? I love listening to you roar and growl all over the jungle. Can you be the voice of our generation? “To which I say…. Simba, my child, sure I’ll do it. I’ll take that magic bullet from here to Narnia! Where is this generational voice vacancy? Or GV if your savvy. Ok, ill fess up. No one has ever asked me any of that, but if said vacancy did become available I would totally apply.

OK. Firstly, let me clarify! The term I’m talking about is of course from the 1951 animated film Alice in Wonderland. So when I say, “rabbit hole”, I’m referring to the deep and colorful scenarios that Alice, our protagonist encounters as she gets lost in Wonderland. The movie pulls you in with a unique and original story line, and before you know it, you’re taken from one fantastical scenario to the next with nothing less than amazement and awe. If you haven’t watched this Disney classic, I highly suggest you do, it’s just too bad you’re not an 8 year old, as that would have truly blown your mind – either way I digress…

Blogging is "hot" right? And yet there are so many online businesses today being ruined because of the blog.

My friendtor Anthony Moore published a piece exactly like this a few days ago. I commented saying that I loved it, then he responded saying he wondered what I would say in a similar piece.

Our ideas are out of our heads and onto paper, to inspire and amuse others. Not writing when we need to write; when we want to write, is frustrating. ‘Not feeling it’ has been a problem for me. I’d just chalk it up to ‘writer’s block’ and find something else to be distracted by.

Cut the preamble. The first couple sentences need to grab readers by the throat. No time to dilly-dally. Pull them in.

Huffpost UK will stop hosting bloggers who are “commercially invested” in their subject matters, editor Polly Curtis has said as part of a raft of changes to the website’s blogging sphere.

I would rather do one single thing every day, and do it well, than be the most productive person in the world. Because quality is my north fucking star. I publish a lot, and I write a lot. That sometimes blows people away, and they ask me if they should try and push out a blog post every single day. …the answer is, no.

Where to publish something has becoming a difficult decision for a lot of businesses. You read so many stories about using various channels to distribute content and grow traffic, it’s hard to know what does and doesn’t work. Medium, in particular, has become a major player in the world of startup content, but is it really that great?

I was self-conscious when I began writing five years ago. I thought, “just what the world needs, another blogger.” This same thought was front and center when Ben and I were deciding whether or not to start a podcast. The biggest lesson I learned from producing content is this: Don’t worry about what the world needs.

Give your posts the professional look they deserve!

There are 2 types of people in this world. The first type are people who know what their next blog post is going to be about. The second type are those who don’t have a clue. This is for the second type. “What should I write about?” This is the question I always find myself asking before I sit down to write.

With no idea what I was doing, I hired a cartoonist to illustrate my blog. The results were surprisingly positive.

People often ask me how I journal, wanting my specific methodology. The problem is, I don’t have much of a methodology. I just write stuff down in a very disorganized fashion. I carry one journal at a time, fill it out, then grab another. I don’t use separate journals for goals, school notes, writing ideas, and recording my history. It all goes in the same notebook, only organized by the date I was writing.

Here's a huge list of websites to find photos, images, music, backgrounds, fonts and everything you need as a blogger.

Professional blogs are boring. They replicate mass media. They don’t bring any fresh ideas to the table. They take middle-of-the-road positions on everything. They focus on churning out content, not for its intrinsic value but for clicks (for revenue) They outsource their content at very little cost (guest posts or ghostwriters). They refrain from controversial positions in fear of losing their audience. And often, their success was simply built on being the first to leverage some marketing strategy (which is perfectly reasonable and not bad at all).

If you want to publish great articles, you need to do more than write them.

To the gmail team, You've built a tool for a billion people. Most of my blog readers use it every day, and so do I. Thanks for creating an effective way for people to connect to the people and ideas they care about. That comes with responsibility. The same responsibility that the postal service has... to deliver the mail. I'm aware that you don't charge the people who use gmail for the privilege. In fact, we're the product, not the customer. Your goal is to keep people within the Google ecosystem and to get the writers and marketers who use email as a permission asset to instead shift to paying money (to Google) to inform and reach their a

Jeff shares his writing routine and best writing advice, including how to never run out of ideas to write about.