#0001 Algorithm for Writing

10th Man's framework for writing.

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Writing is divided by two schools

• Write now.Publish frequently.

• Think a lot. Write a lot (in private). Publish little.

In this edition, once and for all (hopefully 🤞), we’re going to create a framework for writing. I’ll try to analyse and create a formula that can be applied by writers from beginners to pros.

Explanation & background

Writing is the primary tool for asynchronous communication. Period.

Two forms of writing,

• public - writing to audience (newsletters, blogs, twitter, books)

• private - writing to self (morning pages, evernote, notion, roam research)

There are 3 types of writers,

• Consumer - He reads a lot, loves to write, but is waiting for that right idea, maybe completing a course on how to write, following writers on twitter, waiting to build his perfect blog, translates to 0 audience

• Beginner - She started her blog and newsletter, has a twitter following, although a small audience, there are fans for her writing. She’s trying to figure out how to increase her metrics and how to best serve her audience.

• Pro - He’s been writing for quite sometime now. His writing has helped a good number of people. He has lots of fans, who can pay to see more of his writing.

Audience is anybody who will listen to you when you broadcast your communication. For a 5th grade girl, her teacher is audience. For Jeff Bezos, his shareholders are audience.

Framework for Writers

If you are consumer, it’s imperative to start writing. No communication elicits 0 audience. Launching that first piece of writing should be of high priority.

Fastest way to launch is by writing on something within our circle of competence. In short, what we love and what we good at.

And it doesn’t help much on validation of the article since you don’t have any audience to validate good writing from bad writing. So launch now.

For beginners, validation of the article should be given more weightage since this is the stage for analysing your audience. Finding what resonates more with your audience would generate better dividends.

Pros have the most valuable asset in their arsenal, audience.

Types of Writers

Writer’s Algorithm **

Every writer has 3 attributes to consider for optimal audience building -

• N pub = # Number of articles published

• N aud = # Number of audience

• T pub = Average time taken to publish each article = time to write first draft + time taken to edit/rewrite + time taken to validate

Here’s the equation,

N aud = N pub * exp(T pub)

Audience growth with respect to number of articles published

Larger audience demand stronger validation of article

Publish now and exponentially increase your validation before you publish again.

We have successfully created a framework for writing 🥳.

Let’s see if this algorithm reflects the advice given by pro writers.

Application of Algorithm

Think a lot. Write a lot. Publish little - Sahil Lavingia, founder of Gumroad

🚨 : Sahil is a pro writer. And this advice is for his pro audience. This shouldn’t be followed by beginners and consumers since it would interfere with your primary goals (writing more).

David Perell👇

David Perell @david_perell

My philosophy of writing: • Write every day. • Write in public to improve the quality of your thinking. • Write for clarity, not to impress people. • Write about your curiosities. You don’t need to be an expert. • Write for the most intelligent person you know.

🚨: This is the north star advice for consumers and beginners. Although for people with audience can’t write everyday, don’t dilute the quality of writing for reach, you’ll lose fans.

That’s it folks 🥳.

Hope this has helped you if you have been confused like me on when to write and how much time to spend on validation.

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Until next time. 👋

Yashwanth Remidi (@remidiy)

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