Half of My Articles Will Never Get Published

At least, not any time soon.

I’m trying to write at least 6–7 articles per week, usually more, along with balancing my martial arts training, teaching, and freelance work.

Call me delusional, but I’ve got it in my head that with the right blend of quality and quantity, anyone can succeed as a writer. I’m on a mission to prove that and so far, it feels like I’m on to something.

Last month, I had my best month yet on Medium, and I made a couple of thousand bucks freelancing, and I’m still a writing baby. I’m hundreds of followers away from 1000 on here. Largely, this is still my hobby. My relative success is no doubt in part due to sheer dumb luck, but I like to think that my calculated approach has also contributed greatly to my growth.

I’ve said it before: “Quality vs Quantity” is a dumb argument. It takes both to be successful in writing. These are the strategies I’m using to balance quality and quantity along with more than doubling my work output.

In the video I watched, Ayo said that he writes at least 10 headlines per day. I can’t get there yet, but I’m working up to it. I try to write at least 5, and sometimes I get close to 10. Today, I had some extra time, so I wrote 12.

12 headlines are more than 2 weeks’ worth of articles. If you’re publishing 4 times per week, it’s 3 weeks of articles from 1 headline writing session. Sure, I don’t publish all of these headlines and I never even attempt writing at least half of them, but that’s not the point of headline dumping. The point of headline dumping is that it forces you to take a disciplined approach to a single aspect of writing.

This drill has 2 distinct benefits.

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