Nicolas Cole argues the fastest way to improve your writing isn't better prose but better formatting. Dense blocks of text kill readership. Learn the templates for X-threads, blogs, and newsletters, then plug in your opening opinion and three sub-heads like Legos.
The easiest 10x anyone can make to their writing is actually not the writing component, it's the formatting component. Because you have a lot of really talented people who write these amazing essays on the internet, but they're formatted like a college essay. They're just these giant blocks of text, and nobody reads that way anymore. If someone doesn't have writing experience, it's actually easier to not think about it as, "I have to teach you how to write," and instead, "I'm going to show you sort of the proven templates of how do you format things." Like, what is the format of an ideal X thread? What's the ideal format of a blog post? What's the ideal format of medium article, the ideal format of a newsletter. And if you understand visually how that's structured, all you have to do is take the skeleton of how it's structured and just plug in. They said that opinion, let's make that the first sentence. They explained these 3 strategies, those are going to be our 3 subheads. So you're thinking of it almost like Legos instead of writing. Yes. And I feel like for beginners, that's a way easier place to start.
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