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Five Insights from One Million Words and Three Years on Medium
I started writing right here in January 2018. This is what happened next.
1 Million Words Later
When I left Corporate America, I didn’t know what was next. I did know I wanted to write — that was the one thing most urgently missing from my corporate career.
In January of 2018, I joined Medium, downloaded Grammarly, and wrote my first post. I set a goal to write one million words.
I could have set other goals, a book deal or 10,000 followers, but when I looked at all the ways I could become a great writer, the one that stood out was to write a lot. It took over two years to write 1 million words.
We tend to overcomplicate the journey of becoming what we want to be. If you want to become a writer, write. If you want to be a better writer, be prolific.
20 Seconds of Insane Courage
Remember that movie, We Bought a Zoo, with Matt Damon? There’s a scene where he says to his son,
“You know, sometimes all you need…
