John Ray Pucay

3 days ago | medium.com | John Ray Pucay |Robert E. Ralph

The “right way” to learn from your failuresI stared at my blog stats. Another article with single-digit views. Another week of writing into the void. Then I started tracking everything. Not just views, but why pieces failed. Which topics flopped. What headlines got ignored. Where readers stopped reading. My failures weren’t random. They were showing me exactly what to fix. After years of deleting “failed” content in shame, I started studying it like a textbook.

5 days ago | medium.com | John Ray Pucay |Robert E. Ralph

It’s not “consistency” or “audience building”I spent years planning my writing career. I had spreadsheets tracking potential reader demographics. I studied marketing funnels. I analyzed successful authors’ social media strategies. You know what I didn’t do? Write. By the time I finally started my first book draft, I was so burned out from all the preparation that I barely made it past chapter two. This is the trap that catches most “aspiring writers.”We think success requires perfect preparation.

2 weeks ago | writingtoearn.substack.com | Michael Thompson |John Ray Pucay |Darius Foroux

Hello, hello, it's Michael from the Writing to (L)Earn team. Today I'm sharing the one storytelling technique that made my writing “unputdownable.” And it’s rooted in brain chemistry. Now, have you ever had a 'Eureka!' moment? One of those times when, all of a sudden, something previously confusing just made sense. Well, why is that? It's because you 'closed a door.'When we have a lack of information, we create an 'open door' in our minds. Our brains hate it. We crave knowledge and understanding.

2 weeks ago | medium.com | John Ray Pucay

It takes 40% of the time a relationship lasted to get over itExactly twelve months ago today, as I write this in early June, I arrived home from a four-day short-film shoot, closed the door behind me, sank into my chair, and suddenly found tears falling from my eyes. The tears poured and I didn’t know where they came from. Days later, my four-year relationship ended. Then my aunt died. In the exact moments these events happened, my eyes were dry.

3 weeks ago | writingtoearn.substack.com | John Ray Pucay |Michael Thompson |Darius Foroux

Hey there, it's John from the Writing to (L)Earn team. Today, I'm sharing five decisions from my early writing days that completely changed my trajectory from confused beginner to earning writer. Over six years ago, I found myself lost in the sea of “find your passion” platitudes and “write every day” mantras. But then I made some decisions that went against everything the writing gurus were preaching.