I’ll Give You Something to Write About

Our number one piece of writing advice is, “have something to write about.” People always go straight to worrying about technical skill, but a great thought or story honestly relayed by a mediocre writer will still be great. While no amount of technical skill can cover for having nothing to write about. If you can write an email, you can write a blog. If you can message your friends on Discord and be understood, you can write a blog. The bar for functional prose is very low. If you really can’t express yourself in a discord message then ok, maybe you need help. But most bloggers don’t need help with their prose; meanwhile many blogs have perfectly fine writing but are fundamentally about nothing. Almost no one is bottlenecked on their ability to string together a sentence or be a good prose stylist. If your ideas are good, you can go straight to: “See spot run. Run spot run.” You can manifest Grug Mode. What you can’t compromise on is having something to write about. An idea doesn’t…

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