I’ve worked as a professional writer since 2018.
But for the first 5½ years of my career, my writing saw no meaningful improvement.
That changed after I started writing online (tweets + TTRH).
That’s when I stopped getting feedback from ‘professional writers’, and started getting feedback from actual readers.
Turns out that all the conventional stuff I’d been taught was wrong.
If you want to level up your writing, this is what moves the needle: