012: How to write a newsletter, blog or social media post everyday.

Do interesting work every day.

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Here’s how I go about writing this thing.

I work every day.

Work is an activity involving mental or physical effort done in order to achieve a purpose or result.

I use the activity of the day as the subject of my post. The idea is to do interesting work or at least work I find interesting every day and write about that.

But that’s not enough on top of being interesting, it has to pass the “so what?”, test.

What can you the audience do with this thing I’m sharing with you? Sometimes, I write, and when it comes to the ‘so what, test, the answer is nothing. So I delete it and start again.

Writing every day gets you in the habit of doing interesting work every day, so you can write about it.

‘So you can write about it, is a trick, the real point is you do interesting work every day.

Close the gap

Do interesting work every day. Maybe your job is interesting so that’s easy. Otherwise, care out some time to do some interesting work. Here are some ideas:

1. Read or listen to an audiobook during a commute (Reading qualifies as work)

2. Read during your lunch break

3. Write down ten ideas first thing in the morning

4. Do a page out of a book of prompts

5. Do a five-minute sketch after work

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Write your own ideas in the comments. What are ways someone could do meaningful work every day?

Pick one, do it and write about it. Do it so you have something to write about, and write so you’ll keep doing interesting work. And remember to run it through the “So what test”

(note to self, write about how to pass the so what test.)