by Tim Denning | Apr 10, 2023 | Writing
Writers have been used and abused for years. We’ve been paid pennies for important work, been manipulated by algorithms, and told by book publishers to “go build an audience, mate.” Substack came along and said F U to the attention economy. In a recent update, many...
by Tim Denning | Apr 3, 2023 | Writing
The title of this article might sound wild. Isn’t AI and ChatGPT going to leave writers homeless? Well, as my friend Dakota says, “You’re replaceable as a writer if you think the purpose of writing is to write.” But a writer’s job isn’t to write but do the difficult...
by Tim Denning | Mar 27, 2023 | Writing
Our relationship with social media should be a use and abuse one. After all, social media apps have been using us for years. Only now are things going in the other direction. If you’ve ever published any content online you’re going to want to read this. It’ll probably...
by Tim Denning | Mar 21, 2023 | Writing
He’s one of the greatest writers on the internet. He writes under an alias and has been doing it longer than I’ve been buying crypto and losing hair. The trouble is the two main platforms he writes on have reduced their organic reach by an enormous amount. This means...
by Tim Denning | Mar 12, 2023 | Writing
Most writers work harder than they need to. I’ve been a writer for 9 years and I made this mistake. There are three types of audiences: An audience you don’t own An audience you do own A community of readers 99% of writers are stuck in category one or two. Over the...
by Tim Denning | Mar 6, 2023 | Writing
To be a writer you have to invest in the art form. A fellow writer argued with me the other day about spending $30 a month on LinkedIn premium which makes me 6-figures a year. They don’t get it. The ability to reach anyone via a LinkedIn DM is worth way more than $30....