Post by account_disabled on Dec 13, 2023 2:56:28 GMT -5
If writing is truly your dream, then others need to read what you write. It's time to get involved. To come out into the open. To make readers, friends and also, why not?, enemies. Because whoever writes attracts likes but also dislikes. Consider the latter as games won differently. Publish what you write . Publishing is the first step to making your writing a success, otherwise it will be nothing more than solitaire played by you in the melancholy of your room. We are instead interested in a game of poker to the last coin. We are interested in real players, who know how to risk, bet, even bluff, who therefore know how to play and win. Don't write for the masses Don't give in to commerce.
Don't bend to market trends. Don't make compromises that will ruin your image: if you write what the masses want, and not what you want, you will have given in, you will have demonstrated your weakness. Only one reader counts If even just one reader - one and no one else - is ready to read what you write, is even ready to spend money and not just time to read your Phone Number Data stories, you will have hit the mark. It's an exaggeration, but it has its own logic: every writer has his own niche of readers. Some niches are larger than others, still others intersect, others are very far from each other. But they are still niches. And niches can expand. Thanks to word of mouth. Invent your future There is an article by Seth Godin titled “ Two Kinds of Errors ”: There is the mistake of overdoing the defense of the status quo, the mistake of investing too much time and energy in leaving things as they are.
And then there is the mistake made while inventing the future, the mistake of small experiments gone wrong. We are almost never harmed by the second type of mistake and still persist in making the first type, again and again. How deep is this thought? And how truthful? So far as a writer you have made error of the first kind. We have already talked about it. But that mistake should be left for 2012. Today, in 2013, the time has come to make the second type of mistake. The one about small experiments. Call them what you want, but it's about starting to create lots of small, ongoing changes in your writing and your life as a writer. Someone will go bad, someone will bring nothing. Someone will hit the mark.
Don't bend to market trends. Don't make compromises that will ruin your image: if you write what the masses want, and not what you want, you will have given in, you will have demonstrated your weakness. Only one reader counts If even just one reader - one and no one else - is ready to read what you write, is even ready to spend money and not just time to read your Phone Number Data stories, you will have hit the mark. It's an exaggeration, but it has its own logic: every writer has his own niche of readers. Some niches are larger than others, still others intersect, others are very far from each other. But they are still niches. And niches can expand. Thanks to word of mouth. Invent your future There is an article by Seth Godin titled “ Two Kinds of Errors ”: There is the mistake of overdoing the defense of the status quo, the mistake of investing too much time and energy in leaving things as they are.
And then there is the mistake made while inventing the future, the mistake of small experiments gone wrong. We are almost never harmed by the second type of mistake and still persist in making the first type, again and again. How deep is this thought? And how truthful? So far as a writer you have made error of the first kind. We have already talked about it. But that mistake should be left for 2012. Today, in 2013, the time has come to make the second type of mistake. The one about small experiments. Call them what you want, but it's about starting to create lots of small, ongoing changes in your writing and your life as a writer. Someone will go bad, someone will bring nothing. Someone will hit the mark.