Here’s a Guide to Help You Choose The Right Topic to Write About
Some important questions to ponder on before you choose a topic.
And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
— Sylvia Plath
You can write about anything in life. But if you don’t know why you’re going to write a post on any topic, then you might end up writing posts that readers would find unappealing.
Product designers and manufacturers devote time and resources to ensure that each of their new products would be very appealing to their customers. They’d always do their best to introduce a product that’ll captivate potential customers so well that they’d be willing to spend money on it.
Similarly, every writer would like to write a delightful post for readers. And this could be actualized by choosing the right topic to write about. A topic that’d would ultimately produce post a reader would be very eager to consume. So it pays to know exactly why you’re going to write a post on any topic — and how you’re going to write it.
Your Uniqueness Allows You to Write About Anything.
Readers enjoy reading original posts. That’s why you’d see them flock any writer renowned for writing original pieces. Nevertheless, readers also enjoy reading a different version of any topic they might’ve read before. This will be a unique piece crafted with your unique writing voice and laced with your ideas, experience — and knowledge.
Writing is all about being creative and unique. It’s your uniqueness that’ll distinguish you from others — and attract your real audience to you.
You can change the color of your car to a more fascinating color. People will see it — and they’d like it. It’s still the same car, but it now has a different look. There’s a distinctive feeling about the car’s new appearance owing to the new color. And this color might turn out to be more fitting for the car compared to the former one.
You can write your version of any topic that’s been written several times provided you’re going to add a new color to the topic. It must taste differently from the others owing to your perspective on the topic. You’re also expected to exceed and cover more than what previous writers of the same topic covered.
Why it’s Always Important to Write a Story You’re Passionate About.
Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not writing something you like, no one else will like it either.
— Meg Cabot
You can choose a topic from any niche and write about it. However, you’re not going to choose a topic to write just because you want to. Rather you’d choose a topic because you’re interested in the topic and very passionate about it.
Readers can tell whether the writer is interested in the story or not therefore your interest in a topic is the first thing to consider because interest could be very infectious.
For this reason, the level of your interest on any topic you choose to write about can influence the post tremendously. Because a reader would quickly perceive the writer’s disinterest in a post — and this won’t bode well for that particular post.
On the other hand, if the post interests you, it’ll likewise interest your readers and it’ll spur them to read on.
Always Write Pieces That Offer Your Followers a Worthwhile Reading Experience.
Let’s assume you’ve chosen to write a post on a topic you’re very passionate about. But it doesn’t stop at that because you’re also supposed to have some experience to share and compelling benefits for your readers. This is important because readers click on a post for one reason or another. Some readers would want to be entertained. While some would want to be enlightened.
And supposing this is a topic that’s been written about severally, are there some important aspects of this topic that wasn’t covered before which you’re certain to cover this time? And most importantly what’d be my reward if I should spend my time reading your piece?
So it’s not only about how much you love what you’re going to write. It’s also about what readers would gain from consuming the piece.
Also, the level of effort behind your posts can render it irresistible or downright uninteresting. Therefore don’t choose a topic just because it seems easy to write about. Or because it’s trending on Google barring being very passionate about the topic — and having some experience to share cum useful tips for your readers.
Some Important Questions to Ponder on Before Choosing a Topic.
- How’re you going to write it? Are you going to it well because you love it?
- Are you going to carefully choose every word to eliminate ambiguity and pass your message comprehensively?
- What could engender readers to save or bookmark your post so they can return to it at a later date?
- Is the piece going to be clean, interesting — and sprinkled with lots of helpful information?
- Are your readers going to frown after reading the first paragraph?
- Or are they going to be very entertained and informed?
Conclusion
The fate of every piece is solely determined by readers. Therefore any topic if treated well will certainly turn out to be a good read — and will connect you to more readers.
You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.
— Stephen King
Readers crave connection — and you don’t connect at the surface level, but in the depth. Therefore you should always write posts on topics you’re very passionate about and write it very well. Your love for the topic will engender you to journey right into the depth and gather every invaluable bit of the topic to enrich the post — and render it a compellingly readable piece.
And always ponder on what readers will gain from reading your post and how they’d feel after consuming it. Personal experience can also help make a topic ideal to write about particularly if the experience will aid readers to learn something new. Thus you can write about any topic if you have some important tips to share.
Readers aren’t the same. What you’d like to read mightn’t be what someone else would like to read. But you have the opportunity to persuade a reader to read your piece if you write insightful and interesting posts that benefit readers.






