The Art and Business of Online Writing: How to Beat the Game of Capturing and Keeping Attention

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I liked the book because it gives you a perspective on writing. I have begun incorporating it into my own writing - 1000 plus views on Quora in the first month. The number of hours I spend consuming should never equal or exceed the number of hours I spend creating."

How to turn proven online writing into longer, more valuable assets (books, ebooks, physical products, paid newsletters, companies, etc.). This book contains everything I know about online writing,” says Cole. “From going viral, to building a massive library of content that will continue to pay you dividends well into the future.” In this book you will learn: Of course, one could just look through Cole's catalogue of Quora posts, Medium articles and Tweets to see this in action. But, Cole has thoughtfully curated his most successful posts and explained the techniques and structures that make them work so that you don't have to hunt for every article and study it on your own. I focused all of my energy into making my answer the most relatable to whoever was experiencing (or wanted to experience) similar things in life."How to create your own “Content Roadmap,” and position yourself as an influential voice in your industry or niche. The book is full of engaging true stories that put these principles in perspective and trust that the method works. It does not give false promises: Beating the game takes a hell lot of work. Every day. For as long as you want to play it. And really beating the game will involve playing different games, in different scenarios, with different skills. The book fulfills the promise it makes: It is full of examples, templates and stories that actually worked, and will continue working. of the book is writing advice that isn't applicable to other mediums, so I mostly skimmed those sections. It was interesting to see how online writing differs from conventional writing, as most of his advice surrounds how to keep the fried attention span of readers engaged.

Nicolas Cole is a best-selling author, international speaker, a 4x Top Writer on Quora, and the Founder of Digital Press. Nicolas is the author of The Art and Business of Online Writing: How to Beat the Game of Capturing and Keeping Attention, a book dedicated to showing writers how to succeed online . He has helped countless thought leaders, CEOs, and business owners captivate their audience with the same storytelling strategies he uses in his writing. This book contains everything I know about online writing,” says Cole. “From going viral, to building a massive library of content that will continue to pay you dividends well into the future.” Nicolas Cole, the Founder of Digital Press, started out playing World of Warcraft and has gone on to write for Forbes, Fortune, and many other publications. He credits his success to the long hours he spent writing as a teenager and his ability to go from ideation to a written text in just a few hours. Nicolas uses these same strategies to create and sustain his personal brand on storytelling all while maintaining a repeatable process. What is your favorite piece of writing? It could be a book you read in your teenage years or an article you recently came across. What’s important here is whether what you’ve read has created a lasting effect on your writing style and how you tell your story. By using his own personal toolkit of writing strategies, headline structures, formats, and proven styles, all of which were mastered over a 10-year period.The usual mistakes writers make here is they try to fit too many ideas into one single piece of content." Implied Credibility is how much 'Better' or 'Worse' your content is that everyone else's in your chosen category." I was hoping he could explore the topic of writing on the internet for people who haven’t lost their attention span, even though it would be for a smaller portion of the population. Likewise, I’ve been writing on Quora for a few days now and it’s absolutely saturated with copy-paste Facebook memes, and between that and racist/sexist comments on there, it seems that Quora is more of a toxic social media platform than a platform for writers. So I don’t quite see his enthusiasm for it.