Sending a regular newsletter is a great forcing function for improving writing quality.
Sending a regular newsletter is a great forcing function for improving writing quality. When I started writing, I wasn't worried whether my ~10 subscribers appreciated the content or not.
3000+ subscribers (& some familiar names) later, I definitely get nervous before sending...
I found the same with blogging in the mid-2000s. It was amazing how many comments a site with even a few hundred visitors a day would generate, and often from people who knew me and wanted more updates.
I never really got into newsletters, so just signed up for yours to see what it's like.
Putting your work on display publicly is great for forcing your hand at a lot of things. In the early days of IH I would work crazy hard every week so I'd have some impressive progress to share before the next newsletter. I'd send them out on Thursday mornings, so I pulled more than my fair share of all-nighters on Wednesdays. 😅
The one skill I always see in successful people is consistently turning up - it's literally 75% of the solution IMHO. Bravo for turning up every week :)
Not just for writing. My newsletter is curated, so I don't have to write every week. Just reading over 100 articles about my industry has helped me gain an entirely new perspective in the past year that I've been doing it.
100% agreed