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You Can Stick Your Articles About Writing Up Your Arse

By Justy

Ryan J
2 min readApr 28, 2022
Photo by Jon Butterworth on Unsplash

Right! That’s it! Enough is enough! It’s time to find something new to write about because writing about writing is getting fucking old — and the same goes for telling the world how much you’ve earned this month. Nobody gives a fuck.

We’ve heard it all before. Over and over and over again. The same old shit, telling us things we already know.

‘You need to write every day. Write how you speak. Be vulnerable. Find a niche. Don’t find a niche. Comment, like, clap, share other people’s work to build a rapport and grow your audience. Post your work everywhere. Be active on all social media platforms. Start a newsletter. Subscribe to everyone else’s newsletter. Jerk off to all your favourite authors, mimic them, write articles about them on the off chance of catching some reads off of their success and hopefully, using the law of attraction, you may one day become just as shit as them.’

The list goes on and on 💤💤💤.

It’s time to expand our minds. Write something interesting for a change. Write some wacky or weird or nonsensical shit. It doesn’t have to be good, just different.

And this isn’t me standing on top of a perch, looking down on people while thinking I’m the be-all and end-all of what makes for a good…

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Ryan J
Ryan J

Written by Ryan J

Writer from Northern Ireland 🍀 | Based in Sydney 🦘 | Exploring life, ideas, and stories worth telling.

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