In our Digital Writing Q&A Sessions, we sit down and answer the most common and popular questions we get every week from the Ship 30 for 30 community. 

Here's what we covered in this one: 

• How does your content diet affects your writing 
• Why you should look for new mediums instead of new ideas 
•  How to balance content creation vs content consumption 
•  How to filter ideas to double down on 
• How to use data to inform your writing 
•  How to balance writing for joy vs writing for performance 
•  How to track your progress as a writer 
•  Why you shouldn't worry about optimizing for SEO 
• How to niche down as a fiction or comic writer 

For more free Digital Writing tips and frameworks, head over to: https://startwritingonline.com/

In this episode, we give you a 60-minute crash course in the fundamentals of digital writing:

• ​Developing a digital writing mindset
• ​Generating and capturing high-quality ideas
• ​Crafting irresistible headlines (and delivering on your promise)
• ​Avoiding the 10 biggest mistakes beginner writers make ​

And much more!

For more free digital writing tips, frameworks, and resources,

• Check out our free Ultimate Guide to Start Writing Online.
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If you've spent any time on Twitter, chances are you've seen some of George Mack's, Dickie Bush, and Nicolas Cole's Twitter threads.

And in this webinar, we are going to give you a crash course in how to write them effectively.

Expect to learn:

• The three types of threads that work
• How to craft an engaging lead-in tweet
• How to write with rhythm and cadence
• How to stand out from the rest of the world's thread writers
• How to use time-tested copywriting frameworks to keep reader's attention
• How to capture emails with a CTA

And much more!

Amanda Natividad knows a thing or two about marketing and content.

She's led marketing for Growth Machine, started Fitbit's content marketing program from scratch, and is currently a marketing architect at SparkToro.

And in this episode, Ship 30 for 30 Captains Dickie Bush and Nicolas Cole sit down with her to discuss:

• Content marketing and SEO strategy
• Writing on social platforms versus blogs
• How SparkToro can help with data-driven writing
• Common mistakes in the content marketing world

And much more!

Robbie Crabtree knows a thing or two about the power of telling compelling stories.

He's a "mostly-retired" trial lawyer with over 102 trials. And he's taken everything he's learned from his law career and packaged it into Performative Speaking, a program helping founders, entrepreneurs, & executives turn their vision into reality with their words and story.

And in this episode, Ship 30 for 30 Captains Dickie Bush and Nicolas Cole sit down to discuss:

• The similarities between writing and storytelling
• Go-to frameworks for crafting an engaging story
• Common mistakes beginner storytellers make (and how to overcome them)
• How everything in life is storytelling (and what that means for you)

And much more!

Greg Isenberg knows a thing or two about building communities, web 3.0, and writing online.

He's the CEO of Late Checkout, an advisor to Reddit, and runs a rolling fund investing in community-led businesses.

And in this episode, Ship 30 for 30 Captains Dickie Bush and Nicolas Cole sit down to discuss:

• How writers can leverage Reddit for both idea generation and audience-building
• How Web 3.0 will change the landscape of writing online
• The rise of massive "niche" businesses (and how to use writing to clarify that niche)
• Trends in community-first businesses and how to take advantage of them
• Where Greg thinks the next major opportunities will be during the shift to Web 3.0

And much more!

Sahil Lavingia knows a thing or two about writing, building, and productizing yourself.

He's the CEO of Gumroad, a company that helps creators earn a living doing things they love. He's also the author of The Minimalist Entrepreneur, a playbook for starting, building, and growing a sustainable, profitable business that you actually enjoy running.

And in this conversation, Ship 30 for 30 Captains Dickie Bush and Nicolas Cole will sit down to discuss:

• Using writing to validate product demand
• What the best writers and entrepreneurs have in common
• How to use specificity to build something valuable
• How you can apply a 30-day challenge model to writing and entrepreneurship to accelerate your feedback loops

Ever wondered if there was a formula for going viral?

Newsflash: there is. But it's probably not something you've seen clearly broken down before.

And that's what we're going to do in this webinar with Shaan Puri. We are going to workshop three pieces of viral writing to reverse engineer why they worked and how you can apply the same frameworks in your own writing.

Expect to learn:

• How to write engaging headlines
• The concept of writing for one person
• How to write to generate specific emotions
• The difference between viral topics and niche topics
• How we teach these principles in Ship 30 for 30 and Power Writing

To call Steph Smith "prolific" would be an understatement.

To start, she wrote the book on how to do content right. No, literally. She published it late last year.

On top of that, she leads Trends at The Hustle which has thousands of paying customers and does millions in annual recurring revenue.

Steph is one of the most knowledgeable people when it comes to producing successful, high-quality online content. She's reached hundreds of thousands of views on her blog, thousands of followers on Twitter, and produced multiple books and courses that people rave about.

And in this session, we'll dig into her best frameworks for creating content, building an audience, maximizing distribution, and staying consistent.

• Read Steph's blog: https://stephsmith.io/
• Get Steph's book: Doing Content Right