Repurpose Their Content if You Want to Catch On It #38
Introducing the ways you can use the principle of 3 Rs for writing content like someone you look up to.
Hello everyone! You’re reading the thirty-eight issue of The Handwritten.
Have you ever been desperate to write like someone and wondered what this person is doing differently? yes!
From what I have seen and experienced, no matter how excessively you read someone you won’t be able to internalise their tone, style, and lingo—unless you start being picky and reproduce the content using what they’ve already written.
Well, what is this picky now?
There must be something your favourite writer often writes about. Let’s say they often write about the “Importance of Community.” So rather than endlessly reading them, you can start picking all their views, interviews, LinkedIn posts, Twitter threads, newsletters issues, blogs, etc. related to the community. It can be more or less along the following lines:
What did they do right that it turned out to be a success?
How did they identify their mistakes and how they overcame them?
Why have they been after “community building” in the first place?
What other people/startups do they look up to and why?
How have they been rewarded by their community (look for examples)?
I know you may feel like you are deviating from your topic because it’s like everything about the community and not only its importance. But I would suggest you read everything that’s linked to it. Because a person who has done a lot of work won’t give you any generic pointers that are devoid of personalisation and real-work insights. You never know what striking details you will find.
After reading everything related to community, you can repurpose the content around “Importance of Community” using 3 Rs.
REDUCE what is not needed
Let’s suppose you have too many examples in hand and it’s not practically possible to go ahead with each of them so you reduce them to the most relevant ones.
REUSE what stands out
There must be something that the person usually talks about. It can be their own first-hand experience, for example, that makes their posts the carriers of their USP. Reuse it so you can figure out its significance.
RECYCLE by modifying
A combination of various materials about the community + some of your own modification to the content = recycling.
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That’s all for today. Let me know if it helps you and if you have some feedback to share.
Let’s Discussing Casual Reads
I think casual reads help get back to reading especially when you have a packed schedule. I am currently reading Normal People by Sally Rooney. It has seemed casual to me so far. A friend said that this book has mixed reviews so I bought it (and it was cheap). I'm almost halfway through it but haven't been able to deduce any conclusion except that it seems nothing more than a teenage love story to me. I'll tell you if it turns out to be something extraordinary.
Handwritten note for you <3
Cya on February 08’ 24
do you use any ai to repurpose your content?