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A Few Useful Strategies to Become a Popular Writer
2 min readMay 6, 2022
In order to become a full-time writer, you’re going to need a handful of useful strategies.
I’m Ayodeji. I help aspiring writers turn their words into money and start full-time writing businesses.
My ‘street cred’
- $500,000+ in career earnings from writing
- 10 million + views on Medium (and counting)
- Published 3 books, all with 100+ reviews
If you do this handful of things really well, you can turn pro and become a popular full-time writer.
The Antidote to Writer’s Block
You need a system for your writing to produce more often
My system is simple:
- I write down 10 headline ideas per day and store the good ones in a ‘headline bank’
- I mind-map each article before writing it to get the ideas flowing
- I turn the mind-map into an official outline that gives me the exact structure I need for each piece
It’s Who You Know…
You need a network to be successful, but you don’t have to do any ‘networking.’
Networking is cheesy. Instead, organically build a network by creating amazing…