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Becoming a Citizen of the Internet
Thoughts after 2 intense weeks of OG writing course Write of Passage
I took the plunge and signed up for the OG online writing course, Write of Passage.
It’s an intense 5-week cohort-based course designed to completely transform your approach to writing for the Internet Age. It’s not just about improving your style or finding your voice — it’s about becoming someone who writes online.
I’m 2 weeks in now, and I have to say I understand why this course has such a cult-like following.
I’d love to share some of my initial thoughts and takeaways so far. This will be valuable for you if you’re considering signing up for Write of Passage, or any online cohort-based course for that matter, as at the end of the day, it’s about the mindset shifts you need to make to start creating online.
A Relationship-First Model of the Internet
As a Millennial born in 1988, I am part of the ‘In-between Generation’. We spent much of our early lives without smartphones and social media but have been using them for so long we’d be considered natives. Yet writing and sharing anything online always felt too self-indulgent, too vulnerable, too awkward. “What will people think of me?”
