This is a cheeky cheat code to life.

I once wrote an article that took me two hours to research, correctly format, and painstakingly edit.

It got two likes and about thirty views total.

More recently, I wrote an article that took me twenty minutes to conceive and write, and it was full of spelling mistakes.

After thirty days, it had over twenty thousand views on Medium and earned me over a thousand dollars.

15 years of writing online have repeatedly surprised me this way.

It can sometimes be about careful research and preparation. This also depends on what you write about.

But most people who attempt to write online end up thoroughly despising the experience because of the effort-to-result ratio.

It sucks.

Writing over two thousand articles in this time has shown me many patterns that AI-writing noobs have no clue about.

And one of them is that - in general - articles you enjoy, those that feel more effortless to write...

Do far better.

It's not about the time or effort spent.

It's about the level of personal enjoyment you can bring to a piece.

And it has to solve a problem in some small way.

Like in this case, I'm doing my bit to help you see that writing doesn't need to be hard.

You just need to do it enough so that most of your success is rooted to the power of muscle memory and inner creative flow.

This, of course, doesn't only apply to writing.

It's for anyone who does this cool thing called:

Creating things.

Most people do that.

Create more. Relax as you do it. Care less about the outcome.

Publish more.

That's how you secretly turn this around.

If you'd like to hear my story about how I built a life of (pretty much 100%) freedom from regular writing...

You'll enjoy my book: The Never-Retired Writer.

Here's a recent review from a reader:

"The NRW is one of the best resources I have read as a beginning writer! The chapters are short (usually less than four pages long); this concise focus makes his valuable training easily understood and understandable. Every chapter ends with a one sentence chapter review and, usually, a precise action step. I also liked how Alex wrote about the writer's mindset and the journey along the way. His warm heart shows through this wonderful resource." —Michelle Caprio

Buy your copy and do leave a review here.

Alex