Isn’t there enough art in the world already? Why would I need to create yet more content? How can I stay motivated if there are thousands of people out there who make amazing art; who provide a bri…

I’ve been writing seriously on Medium for about a year. I’ve written about 100 posts since then. I’ve also gained 25,000+ new email subscribers. I’ve been writing for 5 years. After first 4.5 years, I had essentially nothing to show for it.

Since it began in the 1960s, fanfiction has been both loved and dismissed as the work of nerdy amateurs. Now, a new generation of authors is dissolving the distinction

2 Powerful Writing Lessons from Ryan Holiday and Derek Halpern

See key things highly authentic creatives do differently that makes them so attractive and excell.

Pirette McKamey, a veteran English teacher, spent 30 years investigating what helps young people to view themselves as writers.

Giving and receiving feedback is an important part of being a writer---or any kind of artist, really. But that doesn’t mean it’s always fun.

How does this make sense? The Washington Post has its own actual newspaper. It’s not my fault that print media is growing more obsolete every day. I wish it wasn’t because I like newspapers, but that’s technology. Not only do they have their own publishing arm, but they have their own website. A website which only lets you see a couple stories a month before you have to pay to look at them.

In an era of illiterate racist YouTube comments, to worry about semicolons seeming overly sophisticated would be splitting a hair that no longer exists.

“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.” — Scott Adams

As I’m a developer, I love to use tools that can assist me in my writing. Over the last couple of years, I’ve created an extended list of useful resources.

Why you should use percentages, not words, to express probabilities.

Univision reportedly plans big cuts at The Onion, Clickhole, A.V. Club, and the Takeout.

A lot can happen in 4 years. A lot can be learned in 4 years. Here's 4 lessons in blogging from 4 years of running a writing blog.

Five offbeat, inventive stories in one wild mansion. Read Common Sense Media's Jane, Unlimited review, age rating, and parents guide. Teen fiction, includes, mystery, fantasy, science fiction and some.

Repetition is an inevitable part of creation.

Let go of your misconceptions, or your creativity will never breathe. When someone identifies themselves as creative, or tells you that their biggest strength is their creativity, you instantly feel a certain level of respect for them. They’re creative! They take the world and everything in it and have the ability to turn it into something new, wonderful and incredible. We have been hard-wired to believe that people who are creative are better than other people who aren’t.

— and What Happens to the Ones Who Listen.

Was writing invented for accounting and administration or did it evolve from religious movements, sorcery and dreams?

Why do we want our work to be perfect? How is this quest for perfection working out for us? Why do we expect our work to be good, particularly if we are new to our craft? Perfection can stop you creating, make you throw your work in the trash and tells you that you will never be good enough.

3 writing hacks that bad bloggers just don’t know about.

You write something. Then you hear the worst sound ever.

For the past 100 days, I have been writing a daily blog. When I started this thing, the idea was to make myself creative, make myself push my own boundaries and find a way to break the patterns. That’s been the goal the entire time, and it’s actually worked. There’s been about 50,000 words written and published. That’s a lot.

Apply these three elements to your content, even if you aren't a "great writer" (yet), to produce useful work that will serve your audience.

Science is messy, full of plot twists and competing interpretations—and the way we talk about it should reflect that truth

Obviously, there needs to be a standard. But do we really want to leave it to science?

Writing for the past two years, I’ve learned a great deal about the craft. I’ve been lucky enough to have a mentor who has given me valuable advice like, “Read every day, write in public, read what you write aloud, practice consistently.” But the single-best piece of advice I’ve ever been given as a writer came from one of the greatest writers of our generation, Stephen King, and is something I need to constantly remind myself of.

 Facing the fear of criticism – and criticism itself – terrified me. You may be struggling terribly with your blog because you are held captive by this same terror, this same fear, and play small. I struggled horribly for many years online because I feared facing criticism, so I played small, stayed in my cyber cave, and failed.

I get it. There’s never enough hours in the day. Juggling work, friends, family, exercise, time off, Stranger Things is tough.

I am a writer. On any given day, I write somewhere in the ballpark of 10,000 words — and the genres are all over the board. I have a journal for poetry and quick ideas that I keep with me at all times, in my backpack. I aim to write an answer on Quora every day. I write here on Inc Magazine five times a week. When time permits, I will microblog on Instagram. I have a number of book projects in the works. And I am the Founder and Editor in Chief of a ghostwriting + influence agency called Digital Press. I am not exaggerating when I say I spend close to eight hours per day writing. Just writing.

Being an artist, being a creative, being an entrepreneur, it’s about fighting with yourself to keep playing the game when it all feels hopeless.It’s about making one more gamble, and every time, setting your sights on a win, instead of leaving the table.

Most people came here to write. Most also hope to grow a readership. No one publishes something in the hope that no one ever reads it. But there is something being lost in the process. It’s because “experts” tell you to give 50 claps and leave quick comments, but if those things are not done with respect and care, they aren’t worth jack sh*t. To build an audience, you have to be part of one.

Travel to Norway and one thing strikes you right away: The country is really small. At about 5 million, its population is the size of Alabama’s. So selling a half-million copies of erudite books there, as Karl Ove Knausgaard has, is even more remarkable than it sounds. This is a tough one to fact-check, but I would estimate that on a per capita basis, his autobiographical series, My Struggle, has already sold about as well in Norway as The Great Gatsby has sold in America all time.

I’ve been blogging consistently for two years. Today I would like to share the three most important lessons I have learned in that time about creativity.

In 2004, psychologist and neuroscientist Ullrich Ecker ran a study on article headlines. Participants were asked to read either a fact- or opinion-based article and answer various questions about its content. Half of the participants received a version with a headline designed to slant their perception one way, and the other half received a version with a headline designed to slant it the other way. People’s perceptions of the subjects they were reading about were biased by the slant of the headline they were given—but that wasn’t the surprising part of the study.