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Shitty First Drafts Are the Key to Building a Blogging Empire

Stop being afraid to write

Ayodeji Awosika
8 min readMay 9, 2022

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Most aspiring writers have heard of the shitty draft rule, but few of them practice it.

Hell, few writers practice at all.

This saddens me because I know how much potential they have. If they’d just get the words onto the page and into the world, they’d start building a catalog that could change their life.

I love when students of my blogging course have that epiphany.

I tell them what do to, and they avoid doing it, but eventually, they pull the trigger. Views start to roll in, their audience grows, and most importantly, they got the words out there.

Funny what happens when you do the work…..

How to Make Your Shitty First Draft A Bit Less Shitty

If you do certain things upfront, writing and editing your draft becomes much easier.

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Ayodeji Awosika
Ayodeji Awosika

Written by Ayodeji Awosika

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