What I Learned From The Best Writing Video On YouTube

This is how you master the craft of writing better

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In today’s Creator Economy, the ability to write something worth reading and sharing by thousands, if not millions, of people is a valuable skill anyone can have.

But to be successful, you need to consistently work on improving your craft.

In a video lecture on YouTube titled: “The Craft of Writing Effectively” by Larry McEnerney, former Director of Writing Programs, at The University of Chicago, he talks about what it takes to become a better writer on the web.

In this article, I have distilled, in short, and simple paragraphs, the lessons I learned from the 80-minutes video. These vital lessons have helped me accelerate my writing career.

• If you’ve been writing in school, you haven’t been writing at all. In school, you write for teachers who’re paid to care about you.
• The problem with learning to write in a system where people are paid to care about your work is that it leaves you with bad writing habits.
• After a while, you get used to the idea that people will care about or read anything you put out there. Truth is, the real world is different. Nobody is getting paid to give a sh*t about you or your writing. In…