Very Smart Advice for Writers from Medium Experts
How to succeed now, by changing where you build and how to title
In the fast-moving dashboard that flies by aging face and ancient eyes, I caught this today from August Birch:
This guys’ stuff is terrific. Smart, interesting, competent, solid advice. I am printing this off (it’s in my basement, if I’m lucky I’ll remember why the hell I went downstairs when I get there).
Are you putting this kind of thing into practice?
I print off a lot of material so that I can notate it. I changed a terrible title I used yesterday and that piece got curated. I guarantee you that the title change helped a lot.
Here is the title help material I used in a compendium of pieces by Cynthia Marinakos:
This stuff works. I have a very bad habit of pushing publish before I really work on a better title. Having Cynthia’s article under my nose helps.
August is writing superb suggestions for those of us who are serious about building tribes, what I call raving fans (I stole that from someone else but I’m too old to remember). He’s worth following.
Now I have to hit the elliptical. If I remember when I get to the basement, that is.
P.S. Yes. I forgot about the article. Stair squats.