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Ep 269 James' Secret to Writing

Ep 269 James' Secret to Writing

FromAsk Altucher


Ep 269 James' Secret to Writing

FromAsk Altucher

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Length:
13 minutes
Released:
May 13, 2015
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

To write well, you need to continually exercise your brain muscle.
As James says, one of the best books on writing is Stephen King's book, On Writing.
King says that after a bad bicycle accident, he stopped writing for a few weeks while he healed. When he got back to it, he couldn't write. He couldn't quite connect the words.
James writes seven days a week and he tries to do it at his peak productivity time.
When Dan Ariely was on The James Altucher Podcast earlier this year, he explained that two to four hours after you wake up are your peak hours.
So if you want to be a better writer, then this is probably the best time for you to sit down and write.
James wakes up about 6:00 a.m. and spends a few minutes every day "meditating." He then reads for about two hours and makes sure to read some fiction.
Then it's on to writing.
If you want to improve your writing skills, write every day and give yourself permission to publish something that is not great.
Regards,
David Newman
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Released:
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Format:
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Hi I'm James Altucher host of The James Altucher Show. I've been a successful entrepreneur, investor, board member, and the writer of 11 books including the recent WSJ Bestseller, "Choose Yourself!" (foreword by Dick Costolo, CEO of Twitter). I've started and sold several companies for eight figure exits, sit on the board of a billion revenue company, I've written for The Financial Times, The New York Observer, and over a dozen popular websites for the past 15 years. I've run several hedge funds, venture capital funds, and I'm a successful angel investor in technology, energy, and biotech. I've also lost all my money, made it back, lost it, made it back several times and openly discusses how I did it. That's why I've decided to do another podcast. AskAltucher is my brand new Daily Podcast. Ask me anything, business, investing, self-help, entrepreneurship, publishing, fitness, money, relationships, startups, breakups and so much more.