6 Content Writing and Monetising Tips I Learned From a Billionaire Author
Simple But Genius
Without wasting much time I’ll exhibit to you some key phrases to introduce you to Ms Sudha Murthy.
And they are:
- She Didn’t come from a rich, influential or political family, married a middle-class man and fellow student, and together they went on to become all of the above.
- She was the first and only female engineer in her class from IIT which is called the MIT of east.
- She along with her husband Co- founded Infosys a multibillion-dollar company.
- She is a proud Mom of two where her son-in-law is the finance minister of the United Kingdom and a candidate for Prime Minister and her son is a Harvard and Cornell AI genius.
- She has published numerous books & has been active in guiding children and spreading education to remote areas and female groups.
- The lady is vocal and passionate about storytelling, reading and writing.
- The couple has funded and donated to many charities and spent numerous hours in social service as she believes that it’s rather easy for the rich to pocket out some cash, but rather more meaningful and difficult to put your own time and effort on direct groundwork.
Here are a few tips that we can take away from her:
Writing —
Observe and Observe deeply
A writer can do justice to the audience by doing his/her homework and research on the topic.
After all, if people are investing their valuable time reading your work they must gain subsistent knowledge only with the assurance of substance will they become your permanent audience.
Clickbait can get you five seconds of attention but true liking and following are built on connection and reader — scribe trust.
“Your imagination and observation are important tools for a writer, where a writer must be like a sponge. I absorb everything from different parts of life.” — says Murthy
Hence one must know the audience’s needs and demands and rightfully fulfil them.
You must be sensitive.
Murthy says —
“If you are not sensitive, it does not matter what you read, It will not help”
Hence to succeed on this platform too you must observe, analyse and engage with existing content and authors.
Here being sensitive also means being vigilant.
Read, Read and Read a lot
One of the most necessary requirements to be a good writer is to be a good reader. You must be open to new writing styles and ideas, one may or may not resonate with all, but awareness of trends and surroundings is a must.
Murthy herself makes it a point to read 100–200 pages every day, And so should any aspiring writer or otherwise.
Get into the skin of your work
She believes understanding people has its own advantages.
“The advantage is that, when you get into the character, you become that character, and then you can write beautifully about that character.”
Here one can infer that without touching the soul of the subject one can’t do justice to the topic.
No matter what you are writing about you must feel deeply about the concept and resonate with the same, then only you can show care and duty towards your audience and work.
Learn from other Authors
“I always see what is it makes me keep on reading.
“Is it the language?
“Is it structure?
“Is it great vocabulary?
“Is it the technique of writing?
“Or is it the mere story?”
— Says Murthy
It’s no secret that every individual has their style and technique, and it’s no problem to get inspired by the same or appreciate it.
But what works for them might not work for you, because it’s the originality and the special touch that’s unique to every person, but studying others’ art will definitely help you in finding out your modus operandi and methodologies that will lead to you becoming a better author.
Write: Bring writing into your daily routine
Writing is a continuous job that never ends, at least that’s the case for me.
My brain is never on off mode, whenever I read something, talk to someone, or just exist random ideas and phases knock on my head.
Writing is not a 9–5 kinda job or just about picking a pen and paper or laptop for a few hours, it’s about continuous engagement with Your own and others’ views.
Another important lesson is that You must try to write every day may it be a poem, a verse, a couple of phases or 5000 words the choice is yours. Even during writer’s block you must collect your thoughts and put them on paper.
It’s about getting and letting yourself inspired.
Money
Anyone who knows even a bit about the lady can tell you that she is possibly one of the simplest and modest beings and maybe the last of its kind.
Hard work and consistency can beat intelligence and luck.
On this platform, I have often seen success coming fairly easy to some and much later to others. But, I can also assure you that most people got their due in accordance with their time, work and honest efforts.
In Concluding:
If your labour was upstanding and your writing was brilliant you will get the recognition and greens.
So work on the skill and the rest will follow.
Thank you
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