⌨️ The Most Underrated Skill - Online Writing
⌨️ The Most Underrated Skill - Online Writing
Best resources to nail it
QUOTE OF THE WEEK
Reading is like breathing in and writing is like breathing out.
Pam Allyn (Founder of LitWorld)
🔒 UNLOCKING: WRITING
They don’t teach us the most critical skills in school.
In curriculums, there is nothing about how to pay taxes, how to handle mobbing at the workplace, how to maintain our mental health, how to manage our time etc.
We spend our adulthood trying to figure out how to adapt these most basic “life skills”.
Writing is definitely one of them.
We all learn how to do it when we are kids. But after ticking that box, only a very small portion of us approach writing as one of the core skills that need to be improved.
Our learning journey gains depth and momentum after we learn reading.
We discover the richness of the human soul with novels, are exposed to a clash of opinions in articles, get aware of our feelings with poetry, and learn a bunch of things about history, philosophy, art, psychology, and business thanks to books and the list goes on.
Then the question is how to get the best out of all this knowledge.
Writing allows us to connect the dots and makes sense of what we learn, think and feel. It lets us organize our inner world, settle the chaos in our minds and progress in understanding ourselves.
It sets us free in a sense.
🔎DEEP DIVE: WRITING IN THE ONLINE BUSINESS WORLD
When it becomes to online business, as this is what we talk about here, writing online is definitely the most underrated skill.
We need to realize that it unleashes the limitless potential of the internet. As David Perell beautifully expressed, it is a magnet to attract opportunities.
A big majority is talking about how to learn to code, no-code and build a product etc. However, it is not a coincidence that only the ones who share what they do in the most impactful way stand out from the crowd.
The online business world needs strong competency in expressing yourself and being good at writing is the foundation of building an audience. Let’s put writing in blogs and a newsletter aside and just think about Twitter; it is basically a micro-blog and making your point in the most impactful way with limited characters requires being good at writing.
Writing online on a regular basis is the best investment ever and similar to many others, the only way to improve this skill is to practice consistently.
You can’t write if you don’t write.
However, you may need someone to give you a hand to train your online writing muscle and gain discipline.
This week I would like to share my five favorite creators who nailed online writing and provide valuable resources that will help you.
📚MUST-FOLLOW ONLINE WRITERS
These online writers are not only very good at creating written content but also repurposing it according to the nature of different channels. They actively use Twitter or LinkedIn, or both. They turn long articles into crystal clear and catchy micro-posts or short social media posts into long-form articles.
They have newsletters, blogs and free courses that serve as a showcase of their style and expertise. These free courses are great for starting online writing. Then, you can invest in paid courses and materials that resonate with you the most if you are serious about improving your online writing skill. It is absolutely worth it.
1. DICKIE BUSH & NICOLAS COLE
Dickie Bush and Nicolas Cole are co-creators of Ship 30 for 30, one of the most well-known cohort-based courses in the online writing area.
Don’t miss their free 7-day e-mail course, the beginner’s guide, and get ready to be amazed at how smartly they use social media to share their expertise.
Ship 30 for 30 (Paid): Cohort-based course that has taught over 5,600 students the fundamentals of writing on the internet.
➡️ Dicki Bush: Twitter & LinkedIn
➡️ Nicolas Cole: Twitter & LinkedIn
2. DAVID PERRELL
David Perell is a true believer that writing online is one of the biggest opportunities in the world today and he is a real inspiration. Once you start reading him, you may run to start writing something immediately.
In The Ultimate Guide to Writing Online, which is a must-read, you can understand how passionate he is about writing and the fundamentals he follows.
You also need to subscribe to his comprehensive 50 Days of Writing e-mail course, where he shares a series of emails about every aspect of the craft, from finding new ideas to editing your writing, to attracting an audience.
David is the founder of Write of Passage, another top cohort-based online course (paid) that promises to double your potential in online writing.
➡️ Don’t wait to subscribe to his newsletters and follow him on Twitter.
3. DAKOTA ROBERTSON
I discovered Dakota Robertson on Twitter a while ago. He doesn’t have a course on online writing, but reading his tweets alone serves like a free course. This is due to both his mind-opening recommendations on writing and his competency in crafting well-structured tweets regardless of what he writes about.
Then, I learned he is one of the top ghostwriters on social media, so it all made sense.
You can subscribe to his newsletter, Wrongs to Write, where he writes on how to make a living doing what you love on the internet. You can learn more about his approach to online writing in issues like writing persuasive copy, useful online writing tools and frameworks to write on Twitter.
➡️ Dakota Robertson Twitter & LinkedIn
4. JULIAN SHAPIRO
Nailing online writing requires being good at deconstructing complex topics and we have things to learn from Julian Shapiro on this.
To start with, I highly recommend his handbook on writing, Write Well, where he helps you write nonfiction books and blogs.
I parallel subscribe to his newsletter, Great Book Highlights, and follow his blog to see how he applies what he teaches to his work.
5. NATHAN BAUGH
Another critical component of successful online writing is storytelling.
Nathan Baugh has a newsletter called World Builders, that is dedicated to making you a better storyteller. It is another must-follow.
➡️ Nathan Baugh Twitter
BONUS: CLAUDIA STELLNER
Claudia Stellner is 14 years old and writes a newsletter with more than 700 subscribers. Period!
In her newsletter, The Writers Way, she mainly shares her experiences in the online world and her creative journey.
To be honest, I came across her on Twitter this week while writing this issue and thought that you also need to know her.
If you have any doubts about whether you can write, reading her story in the below tweet would be enough to make you start right now! (Click on the visual).
Which online writers do you follow? Leave a comment.
👋 See you next week.
A free sunday and a nice blog by Çiler. Thanks for the effort you put into Digiboarding. I love it!
Thanks so much Kubra! So glad to hear that you enjoy reading my newsletter 🙏