Have You Found Your Niche In Writing? If Not, I Have A Way.

I will keep things simple.

I do think it is important for us to find our niche. Being a master of some is much better than being a Jack for fun. I find this to be true in all aspects of life, not just writing. Of course, the context of this story is writing on Medium, and thus I will focus on this point. Before that, let me get to the weird observations of the people around me.

First thing. Finding our niche in itself is an action and a process. The keyword should not be “niche” right from the beginning. The word that has been left in the background is “Finding”, and it is time we bring it back into the limelight.

That is one. Now for number 2.

The process of finding our niche will not be and should not be a passive one. As much as many people think that they can think their way through, you will be disappointed. This is a road with a dead-end at sight.

There are so many things we can dream of. There are only so many things we can achieve because we do them.

Finding our niche involves a lot of doing. I believe that applies to all aspects of life. Writing included. Writing on Medium included.

Now with the mindset issue addressed — Let me address the “doing” part.

The simplest takeaway from “Finding Our Niche” is to do it. If there is only one thing we remember from this story, please remember this. For this purpose, I would like to borrow Nike’s spirit in its branding and port it here. In fact, doing it is doing it. Thinking is not doing.

To that point, unless Artificial Intelligence has matured to a point where everyone could be Professor Dumbledore, extracting their thoughts with a wand and populate it into a Word Document — Thinking alone is grossly insufficient.

That is because we learn through execution. Then the relentless iterative continuous improvement loop takes over. The more we write, the more mistakes we make, raise our self-awareness, humble ourselves to learning more, and we get better 1% daily.

Usain Bolt used to be a baby learning how to walk. I believe he collapsed to the ground multiple times in that process. And then he started sprinting towards his Gold Medals. Perhaps, it is time we remember that.

In terms of daily effort expenditure, don’t think too hard about our niche. Just Do It. I will tweak it slightly. Just Write It. Put pen to paper. Place fingers to keyboard. Type and write what comes into your mind. Let it come naturally.

We have to learn to convert our thought bubbles from something elusive to something concrete. That is done through writing.

And a lot of writing. That might be one story a day. Or one story every alternate day. I leave the metric to you. I wouldn’t focus on that at the beginning.

I would focus on getting the habit anchored into our daily life.

I have learned to write daily. This allowed me to be more observant in my daily life. I write what I see. And I write a ton about it. And then I write about every single topic that crosses my mind. So far it has been business, entrepreneurship, innovation, daily observations, writing reflections, mindset shifts.

The more I write the more I find out what I can crank out daily. The weights for each category starts surfacing. From there, I will have to make my decision to pursue a categorical niche or maintain a specter of writing.

It might be too early for me to establish a niche today. My writing is immature. Henceforth, I have to grow my vocabulary and expression bank through diverse writing exposures.

Maybe I will find my niche one day.

Then again, who says we should only have one niche?

That is too far. Till then, we have to keep writing. And write a lot.

May The (Writing) Force Be With You,

Aldric

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