These are the habits, tools, calendar schedule, writer’s to follow, etc., it took to reach 30M views and earn six-figures as a blogger.

Forget fairness, succeeding as a writer is a lot of hard work and a little bit of luck.

I left my job at the New York Post with no backup plan and no real prospects.

It depends. How bad do you want it?

You’ll fly higher without it.

A simple and highly effective way to up your game

Hopefully, you won’t make the same mistakes as me.

Claps and likes don’t pay the bills.

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 consider ...

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.

Write shorter. Much shorter.

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

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

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Normal people can do it too—without “selling out” or becoming someone they’re not in the process

I’m not highly motivated. I don’t have amazing willpower or self-control.

You can be a rockstar without it.

Start thinking like an artist

Careful is the enemy of extraordinary.