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You Will Destroy Your Writing Future if You Plan
Take your plan and rip it up
It’s so funny. An article I wrote in 30 minutes ended up getting 289,000 views. It makes me laugh thinking about the absurd nature of this thing. It’s funny in an ‘if-I-don’t-laugh-I’ll-cry’ kind of way.
Everyone tells you to plan your content. Plan your posts. Plan, plan, plan. The key to good writing is a plan. Well, it seems that every time I went outside my plan things got interesting.
“Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.” — Warren Buffett
But also I’d argue that someone else planted a tree at some point but they planted it in the wrong soil, at the wrong time, without watering it. And that tree never made it. A plan isn’t always the best idea.
Let me explain.
When you think it’s going to plan
My writing ‘career’ (if you can call it that) has been an emotional rollercoaster. Maybe content creation is just like this. Or maybe I’m an anomaly.
I’ve spent the last 9 months slaving over pieces, hours of research, constant edits, rewriting and those pieces got a handful of views. Painful. Conversely, a…
