Jun 15
Just completed Day 1 of 30 mins of copywork. I feel bored and my hands ache.
Against the odds, 30 days is the goal. I’ll keep going.
Appreciate @Jayyanginspires for inspiring me to start!
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how this one exercise will 10x your writing skill:
copywork.
in short, the activity where you:
- pick a good piece of copy(ads, sales letter, etc)
- word for word re-write the whole thing(by hand)
- then analyze why they did what they did.
- then make your own using the same frameworks.
especially as a beginner, this will give you the fastest improvement in your writing skill.
you will learn:
- the skill of virality.
- how to stand out from everyone else
- persuasion(without reading any books)
- how to build authority.
- make hooks your audience can’t resist but to stop.
- etc
the way it works so well is simple:
- your brain rewires everything that gets repeated.
- rewrite successful copy → your brain rewires for that → your writing skill improve.
don’t abuse it.
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this secret exercise will 100x the quality of your content:
copywork.
especially as a beginner, not only, is crucial to improve your writing skill.
you will learn:
- the skill of virality.
- how to stand out from everyone else
- persuasion(without reading any books)
- how to build authority. how to be be the authority in your space
- make hooks your audience can’t resist but to stop.
- etc
in short, is an activity used by the best copywriter where you:
- pick a good piece of copy(ads, sales letter, etc)
- word for word re-write the whole thing(by hand)
- then analyze why they did what they did.
- then make your own using the same frameworks.
this will rewire your brain to start writing like the big ones.
the more you do it the more their writing becomes yours.
don’t abuse it.
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Jun 13
Books of the Bible in Order | Write, Color, and Memorize set -- Help your kids learn the Books of the Bible in order as they write, color, and memorize with copywork, memory cards, and bookmarks! #homeschool #kidmin thinkingkidsblog.org/books-o… via @DanikaCooley
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100% agree, nothing teaches better than putting in the damn reps
How are you going about copywork tho?
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Jun 12
Day 76/366 of Growing on X:
100 hours of copywork > 100 books on copywriting
Tell me I’m wrong.
(That’s 10 one-hour days of Copywork in the books now btw. 356 more to go.)
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Jun 9
If you want to become a better writer faster, do this:
>find a post that made you stop scrolling
>write it down word for word
>identify the hook and the main message
>rewrite one line 3 different ways
>write your own post using the same framework
the fastest way to learn writing is to learn from writers who are already good
most people consume writing
very few actually practice it
copywork isn’t about copying other people’s writing
It’s about understanding how good writing works
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While learning foundational knowledge, we use excellent literature for daily copywork and narration. Grammar is introduced in 4th grade. In 5th written narration and dictation begin. Formal composition begins in high school.
Jun 7
We hear a lot about the science of reading but is there a science of writing? There are a lot of bad ideas in this space but one idea that wider reading will, by itself, turn into good writing or that it's "caught not taught" is among the most widely held-beliefs in English teaching, but also very damaging because it excuses us from teaching writing explicitly.
The "caught not taught" absorption idea is to writing what whole language was to reading. The reading wars were a fight over whether decoding is caught or taught; the writing version of that fight is the same argument with the productive skill substituted for the receptive one.
Another important element is that writing ability is just assumed at secondary level and not taught explicitly. This is a mistake.
researchgate.net/publication…
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this secret exercise will 100x the quality of your content:
copywork.
especially as a beginner, not only, is crucial to improve your writing skill.
you will learn:
- the skill of virality.
- how to stand out from everyone else
- persuasion(without reading any books)
- how to build authority. how to be be the authority in your space
- make hooks your audience can’t resist but to stop.
- etc
in short, is an activity used by the best copywriter where you:
- pick a good piece of copy(ads, sales letter, etc)
- word for word re-write the whole thing(by hand)
- then analyze why they did what they did.
- then make your own using the same frameworks.
this will rewire your brain to start writing like the big ones.
the more you do it the more their writing becomes yours.
don’t abuse it.
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Jun 6
Copywork is unmatched in accelerating your progress. I’m on Day 6 of doing an hour a day for a year.
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Jun 4
Day 68/366 of Growing on X:
If you want to be a copywriter, you need to do regular copywork.
Many people want to be a copywriter but either:
a) Can’t sit down and actually write.
or
b) Aren’t any good.
Copywork solves both.
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May 28
My own shot at copywork, but with literature. A worthwhile exercise, which I shall maintain daily.
May 27
I've written copy for the biggest business brands in the space as a 20-year-old.
Here's the daily 30-minute exercise to get really good (really fast):
It's called copywork.
Basically, you rewrite great writing by hand.
*Gasp*
"By hand?!" you shout. B-o-r-i-n-g-g-g
Yes, by hand.
It's slow. It's tedious. Your hand will cramp.
That's the point.
You're training your brain to understand what great writing feels like.
A few websites to find great copy:
• Verygoodcopy[.]com
• swipefile[.]com
• swiped[.]co
Do this for 30 minutes a day for 30 days straight and I promise you will be a completely different copywriter.
Ok. That's all for now.
As Nietzsche once said, "One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil."
Go do this. Lmk how it goes :)
S/o @thesamparr & @itskierandrew
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