The Greatest Writing Compliment I Ever Received ↓ It’s 2015. You’re on Reddit. You find an AMA from a guy who makes $30k a month by building blogs. You want in. You have no writing experience. You start learning. You start a blog called Flat Calm Living. You want to help people live less stressful lives, not seeing the irony that a 21-year-old on a gap year doesn’t have a lot of stress. You write 30 posts. You make $0.27. You start chasing affiliate marketing instead. You stop writing the...

A Lesson from Seth Godin’s First Blog Post ↓ I’m a guilty writer. It’s not that I feel guilty for writing. It’s that I suffer from crippling guilt if I don’t write. Almost as soon as I start any writing project, I declare a schedule. Writing daily, weekly, fortnightly, monthly, I’ve tried them all. Then life happens. I’m not a robot in a vacuum, so I inevitably miss a week. That’s when the guilt starts to creep in like a growing shadow. The voice in my head goes something like this: “Oh my...

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