HOW TO WRITE BETTER STORIES IN 4 EASY STEPS

Lyle McKeany
8 min readMay 1, 2021
Photo by Steven Houston

I’ve spent the better part of the past year writing and publishing my newsletter. Over that time, a lot of people have asked me how I do it. They ask questions such as, “How do you consistently write about such vulnerable, personal topics?” or, “What do your writing habits look like?” I thought I’d spend time answering everyone’s questions by sharing my step-by-step framework with you.

So without any further ado, here’s how you can achieve everything I have, IN JUST 4 EASY STEPS!

1. WRITE SOMETHING EVERY DAY

It doesn’t matter what you write or how you write it, but you need to write something every single day. Start small. Surely you can find fifteen minutes per day to blurt out some words on the page. Do that every day and you will write a lot of words over time. After all, 200 words per day x 365 days per year = 73,000 words. That’s, like, a book’s worth of words.

2. CAPTURE YOUR IDEAS

Great stories don’t appear out of thin air. Not even totally made-up fictional stories. Since you will now be writing every day, you will be thinking about writing every day, which means you’ll have lots of ideas pop in your brain at random times. You need a way to capture those ideas. People often debate the merits of different note-taking tools like…

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