Last week I challenged myself to write 1 long form post a day.

Before whenever I would post a long form it would flop.

• 200 impressions

• 3 comments

• 0 followers

2 hours of my life, wasted.

But last week, 5/7 posts went “viral”.

Can you guess the style of post they were?

They were storytelling posts.

They went nuts.

On each post, I’d get:

• 3,000+ impressions (except for 1)

• 30+ comments

• 10+ followers

The crazy part?

I wrote them when I was on my bed wanting to sleep.

Writing Viral Long Forms

• A personal experience would come to mind

• Find the lesson in it

• Think of a hook

• Write the meat

Sometimes I’d write the “meat” first then the hook, but that depends on the style of the post.

The idea of this isn’t to teach you how to go viral.

(you certainly can if you follow how I do it).

But what the idea of this, is to tell you that people don’t care about How To’s as much anymore.

They don’t want to hear another “value” post.

They have ChatGPT for that.

Your audience wants to connect with you.

Your audience craves the human touch.

Start sharing your:

• Personality

• Mistakes

• Stories

• Losses

• Wins

That is how you stand out.

That’s how you win the social media game.

Thank you for reading.

PS:

We just hit 95 readers! Last week we were at 80. As a thank you for reading this newsletter.

Send me one of your posts and I’ll give you some feedback.

Now this human creator/writer needs to study for his finals.

Talk soon,

- Hussain

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