Great advice. Younger me got hung up on editing as I wrote. It became my nemesis and won most of the time and forced me to stop writing. Now, after getting your book, The Art & Business of Online Writing, I'm inspired to get more reps in (data points). Congrats on your marriage!🎉❤
A perfect example of this in action. Your video is inspired and shot from the hip. You didn’t worry about post production quality. Even the thumbnail. The content is good, of course. This is something I think I should practice more with the videos on my RUclips channel. I let perfectionism prevent me from pulling the trigger on shipping my work.
Congrats on your wedding. First time seeing this format for you. Nice. I always advice to not edit at all before being done with your first draft. Write with no censorship at all. Don't try to structure it or phrase it nicely, just...word vomit. Then you can start polishing it. Remove what mediocre, rephrase what's not clear enough, add impact and dazzle as needed, and don't forget about the rythm. Then test and improve as your audiance reacts to your work. If you're a practiced writer, you might no need to edit. But that's not the majority, by far.
Congrats on the wedding! This POV resonates with me for sure--like you said, it's already how we improve our creative outputs so making it conscious and mentally bringing it into our locus of control is empowering and feels good. I'm getting back into content creation after a rough year or two and my writing is so slooow right now, this is a good reminder for me to get on with it and not fall into any perfectionist-type traps. Cheers!
Cole, it seems you're excited for Writing, more than your Wedding :) BTW thanks for making us aware about the importance of raw form of written content (posts).
Congrats on your upcoming wedding! Mazel Tov! That's really interesting advice - I do spend a lot of time on the editing and it feels too polished which feels inauthentic. My current solution is to publish every Monday regardless of how I feel about my essay.
Gotta beat this at all costs. Perfectionism is a form of procrastination, which is a symptom of resistance. And resistance will bury us. I agree that we should lighten up when it comes to editing and ship the work as is. At least in the beginning. This makes me wonder: worrying about our niche too much at first. Some people emphasize the importance of being specific with our niche. But in the beginning, we’re just guessing. We don’t have enough data. So, in a way, I think it’s okay to start broad, and dial in our niche along the way.
This advice also applies to other industries. Been applying it in my own businesses and for people I worked for - why do a Big Bang release and loose money when you can do it incrementally and get to the goal quicker.
Very interesting. But I think there are a couple points worth making. Firstly, the more preparation you do .... outlining and figuring out the structure of what your article is about, the higher quality of the writing. And there will be less need to edit. Secondly, "editing as you write" is a flawed technique. Far better to write a "meaningful chunk" of the article, then pause (maybe for a 1/2 day), then review ... and give yourself the luxury of doing some editing ... if it's needed.
PLEASE I BEG YOU CONTINUE DOING THESE TYPE OF TIP ALL WRITER ON HERE TALK ABOUT HOW TO OUTREACH HOW TO LERAGE YOUR WORK OKAY THESE ARE nice but rarely I find someone giving direct advice on how to write like teach you
If you want to know more about what ghostwriting is, check out this other video I made: ruclips.net/video/4jmtULwbFO8/видео.html
Great advice. Younger me got hung up on editing as I wrote. It became my nemesis and won most of the time and forced me to stop writing. Now, after getting your book, The Art & Business of Online Writing, I'm inspired to get more reps in (data points). Congrats on your marriage!🎉❤
A perfect example of this in action.
Your video is inspired and shot from the hip. You didn’t worry about post production quality. Even the thumbnail.
The content is good, of course.
This is something I think I should practice more with the videos on my RUclips channel. I let perfectionism prevent me from pulling the trigger on shipping my work.
Congrats on your wedding.
First time seeing this format for you. Nice.
I always advice to not edit at all before being done with your first draft.
Write with no censorship at all. Don't try to structure it or phrase it nicely, just...word vomit.
Then you can start polishing it.
Remove what mediocre, rephrase what's not clear enough, add impact and dazzle as needed, and don't forget about the rythm.
Then test and improve as your audiance reacts to your work.
If you're a practiced writer, you might no need to edit. But that's not the majority, by far.
Congrats on the wedding! This POV resonates with me for sure--like you said, it's already how we improve our creative outputs so making it conscious and mentally bringing it into our locus of control is empowering and feels good. I'm getting back into content creation after a rough year or two and my writing is so slooow right now, this is a good reminder for me to get on with it and not fall into any perfectionist-type traps. Cheers!
Congrats! thanks for sharing. My first book took me 10 years to publish, so this message totally resonates.
Cole, it seems you're excited for Writing, more than your Wedding :)
BTW thanks for making us aware about the importance of raw form of written content (posts).
Congrats on your upcoming wedding! Mazel Tov!
That's really interesting advice - I do spend a lot of time on the editing and it feels too polished which feels inauthentic. My current solution is to publish every Monday regardless of how I feel about my essay.
I am reading your ghostwriting book! So happy to have met you! Thank you!
Gotta beat this at all costs.
Perfectionism is a form of procrastination, which is a symptom of resistance. And resistance will bury us.
I agree that we should lighten up when it comes to editing and ship the work as is. At least in the beginning.
This makes me wonder: worrying about our niche too much at first.
Some people emphasize the importance of being specific with our niche. But in the beginning, we’re just guessing. We don’t have enough data.
So, in a way, I think it’s okay to start broad, and dial in our niche along the way.
Thanks for sharing Nicolas, this has been very helpful, I have been stuck in a creative rut for a while.
Very helpful. I’m a perfectionist and its caused me not to produce much of anything and i have stalled in launching my ghostwriting business.
Congrats man, so happy for you.
This advice also applies to other industries. Been applying it in my own businesses and for people I worked for - why do a Big Bang release and loose money when you can do it incrementally and get to the goal quicker.
I have been editing while writing forever. Its a hard habit to break. One reason it takes me so long to finish writing.
Very interesting. But I think there are a couple points worth making. Firstly, the more preparation you do ....
outlining and figuring out the structure of what your article is about, the higher quality of the writing. And there will
be less need to edit. Secondly, "editing as you write" is a flawed technique. Far better to write a "meaningful chunk" of the article, then pause (maybe for a 1/2 day), then review ... and give yourself the luxury of doing some
editing ... if it's needed.
Congrats man
Any tips for how to fix lack of clarity in writing ?
Needed this today.
Well, having done this so often myself, I can't say your wrong
PLEASE I BEG YOU CONTINUE DOING THESE TYPE OF TIP ALL WRITER ON HERE TALK ABOUT HOW TO OUTREACH HOW TO LERAGE YOUR WORK OKAY THESE ARE nice but rarely I find someone giving direct advice on how to write like teach you
If you can't spell things correctly or English is your second language then you should check things.
congrats! happy marriage life
Congratulation
Congratulations on your marriage, Nicolas!🎉
Should be titled Editing is a Waste of Time for Social Media Content. But not final paid products.
Congrats on your marriage!
Holy hell, immediately afterwatching this and applied it, I was able to write so much more and faster. Try it. It fvxking works.
What do you always -- always -- say? Practice in public.
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