The Quiet Quotient

Fail. Write. Repeat.

Failure isn’t the opposite of success in writing—it is the process. Every false start, abandoned draft, and awkward sentence has done more for me than any glowing review ever could.Connect with me:https://www.jimhansenmedia.com

Consistency in Writing - The Gritty Truth

Everyone wants to be a writer until it’s Tuesday at 6am, and the cursor is blinking like it knows you’re full of it. You want flow? You want inspiration? Cool. That shows up when it feels like it. Consistency shows up regardless.Connect with me:https://www.jimhansenmedia.com

Writing About What You Haven’t Done (Yet)

There’s a certain vulnerability in writing about something you’ve never done. It feels like trespassing on territory that doesn’t belong to you—like narrating a story you haven’t lived. But sometimes, writing is less about expertise and more about curiosity.Connect with me:https://www.jimhansenmedia.com

S.E.O. in 60 Seconds - How to Make Google Love Your Blog

You want more traffic. More eyeballs. More engagement. But your blog is drowning in the Mariana Trench of Google’s search results. Why? Because your SEO strategy is softer than a Hallmark movie. Here is how we fix that.......Connect with me:https://www.linkedin.com/in/jim-hansen-b67412169/
 

Writing Is a Muscle. And Most People Are Skipping Leg Day.

Writing isn’t inspiration. It’s not a mood. It’s not you sitting by a rain-slick window with a leather-bound journal and an overpriced pen whispering, “I am the vessel.”
Writing is labor. It’s resistance training. Discipline disguised as creativity.Connect with me:https://www.jimhansenmedia.com

Chasing Depth Instead of Clicks (Why shallow content is killing your credibility)

The internet is drowning in clickbait. Everyone’s yelling louder, posting faster, and begging for engagement like it’s currency—which, in some ways, it is.
But here’s the problem: attention doesn’t equal trust. Virality doesn’t equal value.
We’re trading depth for dopamine. And it’s making writers lazy.Connect with me:https://www.jimhansenmedia.com
 

What I’ve Learned from Editing My Own Work (Painfully)

You sip your overpriced coffee, pound the keyboard like it owes you money, and when you finally hit that last period—you lean back, smug, thinking: I nailed it.
Then you read it the next morning.
And it sucks.
Not a little. A lot. Like "did I write this during a fever dream or under anesthesia?" level bad. Welcome to editing—where your ego goes to die and your real writing begins.Connect with me:https://www.jimhansenmedia.com
 

Your Title Is Everything. Not important. Not helpful. Everything.

Your title is everything.
Not important. Not helpful. Everything.
You have 1.5 seconds—on a good day—to grab someone’s attention. That’s shorter than an eye-roll on TikTok. And you blew it with “My Thoughts on Leadership.” Yawn. That’s not a title. That’s a nap in Arial 12pt.Connect with me:https://www.jimhansenmedia.com
 

The Fear of Change - Crafting Relatable Characters in Writing

In storytelling, we often see characters undergo dramatic transformations. But some of the most interesting characters are those who resist change—who are afraid to step out of their comfort zones. Connect with me:https://www.jimhansenmedia.com

Slow Words in a Fast World

In an age ruled by swipe-speed content, writing has become a race. A race for clicks, for views, for just enough attention before the next distraction hits. Tweets, reels, shorts—content is shrinking, and so, it seems, is our collective patience.Connect with me:jimhansenmedia.com