This is a nice idea! One slightly-ridiculous thought I had though is, how can I handwrite 500 words a day? Is there an app that might help me with this?
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#42Nice! I've been writing for a long time as well. I've found writing consistently and in a stream of consciousness manner is very helpful. This being HN, you can bet that I also wrote an app for my practice ;) https://www.indelibleapp.com/
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#43Nice! I've been writing for a long time as well. I've found writing consistently and in a stream of consciousness manner is very helpful. This being HN, you can bet that I also wrote an app for my practice ;) https://www.indelibleapp.com/
This looks really well done! I've thought about writing an app like this and you've got every feature I envisioned and then some.
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#44Just a note, this is 3 medium-sized HN comments per day. :)
You could populate the tracker from people's comments, maybe.
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#45I had a new years resolution to do a similar practice for writing code. At least 30 minutes per day every night. It's been by far my most prolific year of all time
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#46Nice! I've been writing for a long time as well. I've found writing consistently and in a stream of consciousness manner is very helpful. This being HN, you can bet that I also wrote an app for my practice ;) https://www.indelibleapp.com/
I've been looking for something just like Indelible!
I just tried it out but got the error when I tried to save a draft: "Argument schedule for data.prompt.create.schedule must not be null. Please use undefined instead." — this is from starting off of the tutorial, and trying to hit save.
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#47Does anyone else have the problem where they write a lot, but it all seems to go into the void and never produce any tangible benefit? How do I produce writing that people want to read?
Learn SEO and figure out how to find long tail, low competition keywords. Then write about those and you'll get organic traffic. I make around $20k/mo doing this. Surprised literally nobody mentioned this
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#48Does anyone else have the problem where they write a lot, but it all seems to go into the void and never produce any tangible benefit? How do I produce writing that people want to read?
Learn SEO and figure out how to find long tail, low competition keywords. Then write about those and you'll get organic traffic. I make around $20k/mo doing this. Surprised literally nobody mentioned this
I know there are thousands of guides on how to find long tail, low competition keywords but I don’t think those are written by someone making $20k/mo. If you could be kind enough, could you talk more about how do you find a niche and long tail, low competition keywords assuming I have access to necessary SEO tools.
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#492017 I had the new year's resolution to write one blogpost a week. Now, I'm making all of my income from technical writing. Consistency is key. With that said, less is more. Stephen King said, he writes 6 pages a day, which is probably too much for most people. But one page a day should be doable.
Do you write a blog? Could you share any links to ‘How can I get better at technical writing’?
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#50Does anyone else have the problem where they write a lot, but it all seems to go into the void and never produce any tangible benefit? How do I produce writing that people want to read?
Your question kinda took me by surprise. I write a ton (I take notes on literally everything that happens) and none of it is supposed to be read by anyone. I'm not even sure how much of it I'll read myself later, the point is I'll be able to, if I need. Otherwise, I just cannot remember anything of what I read, saw or heard a year later.