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M. Louisa Locke's avatar

Wow, this was a banger! Such good advice. I definitely do #1 with pretty much all my posts, definitely my fiction. #2 I am blessed with "its good enough" personality so don't know that I have ever thought anything I wrote was a banger! #4 always, always reread even daily posts or long emails before I publish. Definitely try, not always successfully #7 and #9 and #14 and I really loved #8! And now I've gotten lost in the woods of your numbers, and want to take a nap, but they were all really were good things to think about. So thanks!

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Seth Werkheiser's avatar

"Write more, organize less." ooooh, baby.. this is a hit.

I've tried the whole systems thing.. Notion, editorial calendars, etc. but I just can't with this stuff. There HAS to be like, freedom of movement, of spontaneity to all this for me and how I wanna operate. Coming back to stuff later rarely feels "alive" for me.

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Tom White's avatar

“Celebrate other people's work. I've had the pleasure of feeling how great it is when someone, anyone, tells you how much your work meant to them. Do that for others, but only when you mean it.”

Bingo. I wrote about this here: “ If you see something good, decent, kind, beautiful, or true, say something to the person from which it came.

A well-placed compliment or thank you or exhortation or acknowledgement can move mountains or even change the world.” Read on: https://www.whitenoise.email/p/if-you-see-something-say-something

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billy bearham's avatar

i really agree with a lot of this but i have to say i hate everything i write until some time has passed, like if i didn't post something cause i didn't like it i would just never ever post, i would be locked in the certainty that i'm fucking terrible, but like looking back i like nearly everything i've done.

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billy bearham's avatar

i actually didn't have to say that, i wanted to

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Paolo Peralta's avatar

so good!

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Shindy Chen's avatar

Alex did you do #4 when writing this headline: "get this his man some evaluation"

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Dana Leigh Lyons's avatar

Re-read the piece before publishing it!!*

*Except don't reread it hundreds of times, rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic (which is the exact phrase that pops into my head as I'm retweaking sentences I've already tweaked and untweaked).

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Kathryn Hatheway's avatar

If I LIKE this will it just feed the problem? I should write a comment instead because that’s deeper engagement, and because this was a beautiful piece - don’t forget to “watch the unsubscribe numbers and take pride in the culling of the flock cause it means you’re resonating so hard that those who will never engage deeply feel they must bounce”… BRAVO 🙌

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Núria Gispert's avatar

alright taking notes: choose ✍🏻 analogy ✍🏻 over ✍🏻 digital ✍🏻

in all seriousness, these are great tips (you're doing a great job). i never thought about the different types of feedback or how evaluation and appreciation are different, I guess some feedback could be indirectly the evaluation type? or if you receive a lot of appreciation, you could deduce, indirectly, you're doing a good job indeed, but i guess that doesn't replace actual evaluative feedback.

because i don't receive much feedback, it mostly comes from my future self who if and when reading an old post thinks i did good. i think it's more tricky to do as my present self-doubting self, but i think focusing on having fun helps me the most.

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Raymond Edling's avatar

Great... but...couldn't you be a bit more obsessive?

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