Creating content worth publishing
Why frameworks beat fractured ideas, every time
creativeconstructs.substack.com
Narrative-market fit is that intersection between:
Questions your audience is asking
Questions you can credibly answer
Topics that are valuable for your business.
When you have that figured out, you know which topics to write on and which to decline.
Delightful
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Tell the internet a story
ghostagency.substack.com
But the 95% who are NOT in-market are not up for you telling them what they need to know or do.You want to shift their thinking about the Category Problem in ways that align with your own product's unique worldview.Every product has a set of opinions baked into the design of the product about how the world works and the best way to address the... See more
Paul Venuto • feed updates
Writers need to become researchers first and writers second. Successful writers are researchers who write on the side.
As a writer, your goal isn’t to become an expert, but rather to report on or write to them. Hence, your knowledge base is better built around citation instead of internalization. You don’t need to memorize; you need to link.
As you
Meaning and point of view are essential for anything worthy of our attention. It’s about a sense of purpose and personality that goes beyond mere information transmission. It’s about paying attention, and not outsourcing observation. In a world increasingly populated by auto-generated content, the combination of substance and style will rise above
Carly Ayres • On substance with style
The people with followings, or those gatekeepers at the publications, events, email newsletters, blogs, journals, broadcasts, and accounts have three unique qualities when it comes to sharing your work (or writing about you, inviting you to their event, including your link in their newsletter, etc):
- They’re driven by incentives to earn engagement