by Tim Denning | Nov 8, 2020 | Writing
This is why I hate personal branding and basically all marketing. It takes advantage of the audience. The audience is treated like an abused victim ready for another beating. As a member of the audience, you feel like you’re being exploited or content-marketed to. As...
by Tim Denning | Sep 28, 2020 | Writing
Writing online looks easy. Anyone can do it, they say. That’s all true. Anyone can be a writer and publish stories online. But there is a lot more to publishing stories online. For example, what happens when a group of people decides to organize themselves using...
by Tim Denning | Aug 30, 2020 | Writing
Writing advice is too complicated. You need a degree to decode common writing concepts properly — like “prose” and “SEO.” Screw that. I have racked up more than 100M views on my writing over the last six years. I didn’t study beautiful English essays or date...
by Tim Denning | Aug 18, 2020 | Writing
Some days I’d rather sip lattes than write. The motivation to write is not always there. So how do some writers like Sean Kernan gain so much traction so fast? They think about writing in a different way. Writing is a workout for their mind. Each writing activity is a...
by Tim Denning | Aug 6, 2020 | Writing
Every time I open up a blank page to write, I feel stupid. Like what I have to say is inadequate and petty compared to, say, Elon Musk. How can I compete with Elon Musk? Well most of us can’t. Elon has rocket ships. What you got? What if I was to tell you that feeling...