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5 Writing Prompts For Your Next 5 Days Of Writing
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6 min readFeb 6, 2025
At 24, I graduated from Columbia College Chicago with a degree in fiction writing, and I was determined to make writing a full-time career.
I asked myself where I should begin writing on the internet. And that’s when I discovered Quora.
- Quora is a massive social platform for writers online (300M+ users)
- Questions on Quora serve as endless writing prompts
- Readers asking questions = “Write this and I’ll read it”
It’s a Holy Grail for writers.
I answered one question every single day, for a year straight.
- Within 3 months, my first Quora answer went viral, accumulating over 100,000 views.
- The next month, I landed on the front page of Reddit, accumulating over 1M views.
- By the 6-month mark, over a dozen of my Quora answers had been republished in Inc Magazine, TIME, Forbes, Fortune, Business Insider, and many more.
- By the 9-month mark, I had accumulated several million views and had become the fastest user ever to go from new account to Top Writer.
After 1 year of writing online every single day, I had effectively become one of the most-read writers on all of Quora.
The lesson?