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How To Get Ahead of 97% of Writers In The Next 12 Months

Everything changed for me when I did this

6 min readMay 2, 2025
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My fingers would hover over the keyboard, frozen with doubt. My mind would spiral with questions nobody was asking. And that blank page would mock me like an enemy.

Sound familiar?

Seven. Painful. Days. That’s how long it took me to squeeze out a single article. But last month? I unleashed an article every single day. The hardest part about writing isn’t the writing. It’s the battle raging in your mind.

When I finally conquered my mental roadblocks, everything changed. My audience exploded with 16,000 followers in 12 months. Not because I discovered some magical writing formula, but because I simply wrote more.

Let me hand you the five weapons I used to slay my demons and becoming an unstoppable creator.

1. Kill self-doubt with cold, hard proof

Self-doubt doesn’t gently whisper — it hisses:

“Who do you think you are to write this?”

“No one wants to read your stuff.”

“You’ve got nothing valuable to say.”

And suddenly, the energy drains from your fingertips like blood from a wound. You’re left empty, on…

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Derek Hughes
Derek Hughes

Written by Derek Hughes

I'm an old bloke with zero writing experience. In 18 months, I built a $35k writing business. Get my free 5-step system: https://www.derekhughes.biz/

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