Had another one of these longform stories hit this weekend https://x.com/chasedownleads/status/2071243437374845264?s=20 Here's my rough process for writing these: - find a real, cringey post to parody (LinkedIn Lunatics account is a good place to start) - open up with some dramatic sounding first line (it's best if you slip the word 'billionaire' or some large sum of money in there) - make the 2nd or 3rd line some ridiculous detail that has nothing to do with the actual story (the spaghetti kiss part, in this case) - break it up into as many short lines as possible for dramatic effect - story ends with someone having a name that isn't actually a person's name

it's always the dumbest stuff that goes viral. I was down the shore with my fam and I laughed to myself about the whole "market price" thing on menus one night while we were at dinner, so I fired this off: https://x.com/chrisorzy/status/2068787907599507818?s=20 Didn't generate any new business, obviously. but now Im only ~500k impressions away from being monetized, so that's pretty cool, I guess

Hi everyone, I've been following Charlie for a little while, and I recently purchased the How to Post guide. I'm interested in learning how to write online and, hopefully, turn it into a side business. I already write in my spare time, but it's mostly about history, religion, culture, and anthropology. Right now, I'm currently working on a book about the history of different religious movements. Parody is a bit different from the kind of writing I usually do, but I'm excited to learn and give it my best shot. Great to meet you all!

Alright nerds, I guess I'll start. Rn I'm not seeing $10 of value but if one of y'all can solve this problem, I'll give Charlie another month lol. I started writing on Medium a couple years ago. I leaned very heavy into AI and was getting good traction. My whole strategy was Google seo and it was working. I turned on monetization and things were working great for like a week until Medium changed their paywall method. Free users used to get up to 3 daily paid articles. Now it's zero. My Google bounce rate tanked and so did my viewership. At this point, I was having fun with the process, so I decided to actually write what I cared about. AI was used for research or for improving readability, but I was doing the writing. I was making pretty consistently $20+ a month on the low-end, and that's with a very small following (I'm still under 300 followers on Medium). My big mistake was not making an email list, but oh well. Live and learn, right? Anyway, all that to say that I have the infrastructure setup now. I have a Gumroad for ebook leads. I have a substack created to double post my articles. I have a bunch of outlines and ideas written, but I can't for the life of me get myself to write. I now have two kids, a full time job as a teacher, and a part time job with my church. I'm always exhausted and always tired. I know what to do. I know even something like 10-15 minutes a day would be enough to get the ball rolling. I just can't bring myself to sit in front of my computer and write. I'm going through some family stuff so I know I have some kind of acute depression going on with all that, but still, the struggle with executive functioning is very frustrating. Has anyone been in a similar situation before? How do I get out of this slump and get back writing? Any thoughts or tips?

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