Pointless Writing Advice
How to Drag Out Your Medium Piece to Four Hours— And Still Make No Money!
Become the long form writer you always wanted to be

I wrote a piece a few weeks ago, entitled
Four Hour Medium Reads Are IN — Short Pieces are OUT!
Unfortunately, many readers complained they simply didn’t have the brainpower or talent to write more than 8-lines.
One reader openly admitted that even if she has good intentions, after one sentence she switches to a listicle. She says it’s in her blood, and thinks she’s turning into a vampire.
But why not? Self-help writers have been sucking dry non-existent problems for decades.
Why can’t you?
Ten Ways To Avoid Slipping in the Shower
Or
Foot Fungus! — A Cure in Eight Easy Steps
Or
Cut Down to Zero Calories a Day— Saw Yourself in Half!
Or
Manage Time Better — Shoot Yourself!
See! It’s easy. Just think of a topic — any topic in the world — and put a number in front of it!
Twelve Ways To Stop Philip Ogley Writing Pieces About Medium!
There you go, you’re winning already!
One of my favourite techniques is criticizing other writers. Take one of their poorly thought-out pieces and ruthlessly pull it apart. Some of my regular targets are Smillew Rahcuef, Uvebruce, Mark Suroviec, M.Ed. and Michael Burg, MD (Satire Sommelier). Hours of fun!
You can choose your own!
Then I fill up the remaining pages — remember the max length for a Medium article is Four Hours — with formatting shortcuts and needless punctuation.
The line break is my favourite…
As well as the Dropped Capital, Bold Type, Italics, and ellipsis…
…followed by a
Heading
Or a
Subheading
Followed by a meaningless image

Then a whole series of meaningless pseudo philosophical questions and answers like:
— Can I Write?
— NO!
Which gives you the perfect opportunity to introduce the Em — Dash and numbered bullet points —
1. So that your
2. Whole piece
3. Slowly starts looking like
4. A Listicle
5. Which is
6. Exactly what you wanted
7. Because you have neither the talent
8. Nor brainpower to write anything
9. Else except a listicle
10. Or a Poem (In Ten Easy Steps)
Then when you’ve finished, you can publish it on some self-righteous Medium publication like Boring Humans or The Fuck-Up and wait for your ten-minute piece to be boosted along with all the other crap.
Good luck!
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