by Tim Denning | Dec 12, 2022 | Writing
The creator economy matured in 2022. If 2021 was the year of excess and wild profits, 2022 was the year that sent anyone who wasn’t serious back to their desk jobs or forced them to quit writing forever and become a hater in the comments. It already looks like 2023...
by Tim Denning | Nov 30, 2022 | Writing
“Try not to offend anyone.” That’s what most writers accidentally think when they set out to write online (don’t worry, I did too). So they follow this method for a while and eventually burn out. Why? Nobody’s reading. The smart way to figure out if your writing is...
by Tim Denning | Nov 25, 2022 | Writing
Stories superglue themselves to human brains. It’s bizarre. Only when you look at storytelling from a psychological perspective does it become apparent why. Once you understand it you can use storytelling to get what you want. I have to warn you though that these...
by Tim Denning | Nov 7, 2022 | Writing
People think I’m an idea-generating machine. It’s true that I never run out of ideas, but not because I’m smart. What makes idea generation effortless for me is one belief: Everything is connected to everything. I don’t let labels, niches, critics, or boundaries place...
by Tim Denning | Nov 7, 2022 | Writing
Just shut the hell up. Seriously, doomerism has become big business. Dumb d*cks do it to get cheap clicks. Doomerism became a popular word again thanks to researcher Hannah Ritchie from Oxford University and the popular article she wrote. It describes people who are...
by Tim Denning | Oct 31, 2022 | Writing
The chimps at Mailchimp banned me for life. Build an email list and you’ll own your future, they say. Wrong. Centralized tech can still nuke a writer’s career for no reason. I don’t know why the chimps at Mailchimp banned me. I will never know. It’s a dictatorship,...