Joe

Want to know the best way to start writing online?

Answer prompts.

It's how I became the most-read writer on a platform called Quora with 300+ million active users.

Here’s 3 of my favorite prompts to get you started:

What was your first job, and what's 1 lesson you learned you'll remember forever?

What was the biggest mistake you made as a young

For any experienced creator, the essential question is whether the work being produced will remain useful and relevant years from now. If the answer is uncertain, it may be time to identify the ideas that deserve to be developed into structured tools, models, or reference works.

instead of teaching people HOW to do something, you help them build the beliefs that make your course feel like the obvious next step.

People will do anything for those who encourage their dreams, justify their failures, allay their fears, confirm their suspicions and help them throw rocks at their enemies.

That, in a single sentence, contains five of the most important insights I have learned in all my years of studying and applying the principles of persuasion:

• encourage their

look for the intersection between your personal experience and the topic you want to write about.