4 Writing Tips That Helped Me Gain 3,000+ Reads in 30 Days

I’ve been writing now for over 2 years. I started writing, for income, in February of 2023, and I would like to think I have come a long way in improving my writing skills since 2021.

I realised many things that I was doing in my writing that were turning off readers big time. Today I’m going to share what I changed about my writing to turn it from spare toilet paper to valued advice.

Also if anyone wants to read the first thing I ever wrote it’s available here:

I wrote this first short chapter back in 2021, and I genuinely had intentions to start writing a book following this piece, but it never ended up happening.

However, writing fantasy novels and writing online to make money are two different things, but the tips I will share today will make your writing powerful in any setting.

Follow these tips to make your writing have that high impact on people and watch your views and reads fly to the moon!

And now, on with the show!

Stop With The Fancy Words

Imagine you are in a restaurant, you order the chicken.

It comes out, perfectly seasoned, but undercooked, raw.

A chef perfecting his spices while botching the main point of his dish, it’s like you using all the best vocabulary and long fancy words.

But your storytelling is hot garbage.

My first tip is this:

“Stop using big words”

What’s even worse is when people are writing towards a specific demographic and using these silly terms that they think make them sound professional, but all it’s doing is confusing their readers.

Your reader is probably not a writer, they don’t know the meanings of every word in the dictionary.

So write:

• Short
• Concise
• Clear

Don’t be like the chef.

Be Confident In Your Words

Next up, confidence is key.

Your reader has no reason to listen to you, so give them a reason. They aren’t going to read something that even the author doesn’t believe in, so write every word like you are speaking it into the world.

Don’t play passive, and don’t sit on the fence.

It pays to pick a side. Make a point and stick to your guns throughout your article. Sure it’s fine to show the other side of the argument, but make sure it’s crystal clear where you stand.

Never forget that they are your words, not someone else's, yours. Your opinion is yours, and it can’t be taken away from you unless you allow it to be. So when you write from now on, do it with conviction.

Believe in yourself, you know you best, and you know your writing is good. Stop falling for imposter syndrome, you are the master of your own destiny.

Self-belief is what makes people successful.

Structure Your Story

No, I don’t mean beginning, middle and end.

I mean make sure your writing looks nice, not just sounds nice.

No one wants to read a mountain of text, except your English teacher, from a textbook with some questionable drawings in it.

Notice how my sentences all have different lengths. If they didn’t my writing would be boring. You would switch it off because it had no life. Nothing to capture your attention. Starting to see what I mean?

Vary your sentence length, your vocab, and your word use.

Use pictures to help with structure too, again think about not writing a wall of text. I try to keep my ‘paragraphs’ if you can call them that, under 3 lines long. This balance helps my writing have a nice even pace to it.

So make sure your writing has variety.

Details, Details, Details

People love details, and I mean love.

There is nothing better than a story in which you keep thinking of questions and just then they are answered for you in the next line. We humans are visual creatures, we like to imagine and see things.

So don’t just tell us you went into the barber shop, tell us what the barber looked like, what colour was the chair. Who else was there? What time was it? What other details can you remember, was there hair on the floor, maybe there was a tv playing a football match? What match was it?

Always think about what questions your reader will have, an incredible tip would be to have AI software read your writing aloud while you close your eyes.

Can you imagine the scene you want to paint for your readers?

If yes, great, if no it’s time to edit my friend.

Instead of this:

• I forgot to do my homework

Make your readers feel as if they are in the room with you:

• It was almost home time, 3 pm when the teacher said those ‘oh-so-familiar words’ and bags started filling the space of empty desks as papers tumbled out, and everyone began unveiling their completed homework. Even Dean, and Dean never did his Homework. I saw Mrs. Little glance toward me, pushing her glasses onto her forehead, she waited as I sifted through my blue rucksack looking for something I knew wasn’t there, it had completely slipped my mind, it was time to panic.

You have to be able to make your reader feel how you felt in that moment, make them close their eyes, and be able to see everything.

Insert them details!

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Until next time,

Jeff.