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This is the 25 edition of The Student Creator! Welcome to the 64 newest members of The Student Creator Newsletter!!

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Each Sunday you get:

• 3 marketing tips

• 2 favorite quotes

• 1 short story

Lezzz do this! 👇

3 Marketing Tips: 💎

1. Writing Tip ✍️

Ask rhetorical questions

Asking rhetorical questions helps you take control of your reader’s thoughts.

Why?

Because asking rhetorical questions bonds you with your readers. It allows you to make sure you’re both on the same page.

Do you understand what I’m saying? Good. Then let’s move on to the next tip of the week…

2. Psychology Tip 🧠

The Hawthorne Effect (AKA The Observer Effect)

People tend to act differently if they know they’re being observed.

How to Apply This:

• Pretend your hero is watching you

• Pretend your younger self is looking at you

• Pretend you have a camera crew following you around (h/t: Joe Rogan)

Doing this will ensure you aren’t slacking off on important tasks (like homework lol)

3. Storytelling Tip 🖍

Create a curiosity gap

5 ways to spark curiosity in your stories:

1. Ask questions

• Can I be completely honest with you?

• Want to know the best part?

• But why did I do it?

2. Hold back information

• I’ll explain that in a minute.

• But more on that later.

• Here’s the catch:

3. Simplify a difficult concept

• Picture it this way:

• Here’s the truth:

• Let me explain:

4. Get in the reader’s head

• You might be wondering…

• I’ve been there too.

• Let me guess…

5. Build suspense in your story

• That’s when it happened…

• The crazy part is…

• Then it hit me…

Hope this helps :)

2 Favorite Quotes: 📜

Doing a few stretches every morning is a simple idea.

Saying “Good Morning” to people is a simple idea.

Shooting 500 form shots every day is a simple idea.

…but most people don’t take simple ideas seriously.

h/t: James Clear

1 Short Story: The Internet is Cool 🤷🏻‍♂️

It was just another regular Sunday morning.

It was 6:15 am and…

I was getting ready to volunteer at my friend’s 5k run when I checked my phone…

Now, most notifications on my phone get buried.

I have over 14k followers on Instagram, and I only receive select notifications.

But I just so happened to spot this notification from a blue check (verified) account.

And I thought, “who is this guy?”

So I clicked on his profile and he had 45.9 million followers!!!

My immediate thought was… “NO WAYYY!!”

But then I thought… “but he must be a fake.”

So I ran over to my brother and was like “There’s no way this is who I think it is.”

And he was like, “Yeah it’s probably a fake.”

But, I googled his name and it turned out, it was his real account!

Conor McGregor followed me on Instagram!!

(I walked around the house like this afterward haha)

My Favorite Things This Week: 💜

📝 Article - Write Like The Hustle: The Boring Stuff About Writing That No One Talks About by Sam Parr

🎥 YouTube Video - Danny Miranda’s 250th Podcast Episode QnA (he answers my question yay)

🐦 Twitter Thread - Why a Harvard Scientist Drowned Rats in an Experiment by Jay yang

What Happened This Week: 🕵🏻‍♂️

• Had a great call with Brian O’Connor

• Hit 30k on my Visual Vault account

• Switched newsletter platforms to BeeHiiv

Jay “The Notorious” Yang

The Student Creator 👨🏻‍🎓

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