• Alex Mathers
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  • My writing breakthrough happened with one sentence.

My writing breakthrough happened with one sentence.

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I was overthinking every paragraph.

Every post felt like performing surgery with a rusty knife.

Painful, slow, and lifeless.

I'd write, delete, rewrite, second-guess, then publish something that felt completely empty.

One day, frustrated and exhausted, I stopped trying to sound like a 'writer' and just wrote like I was texting a friend:

'The thing that's been bugging me recently...'

The words flowed.

I enjoyed myself.

That post got more engagement than anything I'd written in weeks.

I learned that readers respond to writing I wasn't resisting.

When you write with the same ease as you text, people pay attention.

And when you have attention, you have power in this age.

Online Writing Alchemy course reveals insights like this one that save you years of frustration.

Alex