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4 life-changing lessons

Nicolas Otero
6 min readSep 12, 2024

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Every writer needs to know

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There are, in fact, more than 4 lessons that could change a writer’s life. After all, we cannot pretend that all of our lives are exactly the same and that they will consequently benefit from the same words of advice. I am, however, writing from my own personal experience, as well as some much-appreciated interactions that I have had with other writers along my path in the field of words. Such experiences have taught me that most writers out there (myself included) count on outlines amongst their most used content creation resources.

Just like we tend to include elements such as our estimated (or targeted) word count, the theme that we will write about, our deadlines, as well as the structure of our content (the usual introduction, body, and conclusion triad) I also tried to operationalize what I call my personal outline.

Thus, what I discovered works best for me is to include dimensions such as time, workload, emotions, and topic as the main columns that will hold my action plan (a.k.a. personal outline) and how I will personalize it to each situation or text I will dive into.

To better illustrate why I chose these as the main aspects I tend to care about, I will have to reminisce about the lessons in my life as a writer which taught me to mind each of these aspects.

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Nicolas Otero
Nicolas Otero

Written by Nicolas Otero

I am a psychologist, professor, writer, and HR consultant who is constatly trying to make the world a better place. One word at a time.

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