Rave
My Response To Your Views Aren’t Down. Your Quality Has Massively Dropped.
You’re tired
I’m writing for eight hours straight today. You know what? For the first time in seven years, I couldn’t make it through. I felt really tired. Publishing ten stories a week on a blog can do that to you. What did I do to bump up the quality? I had lunch and took a 20-minute nap. After 20 minutes my writing came back again and so did the quality.
If you’re tired, then your writing will suck. Use naps to recover the quality of your writing.
Amen to that. I have a myriad of health issues. I have good days where I can roll for about 4 hours and then I’m done and have to cash it in for the day. Or I can take a break, eat, nap and then have another go at it for a couple of more hours. I let the bod be my guide. I drive it into the ditch and it will take me forever to “get right” again. It’s just not worth it.
You’re trying to be interesting
You know what I’m talking about. I saw a tweet today of the surface of Jupiter. The photo was taken in the 80s. It was bizarre. I considered writing about the surface of Jupiter. I didn’t though. I don’t write about planets. I’m not an astronaut or a professional stargazer.
Thank God I don’t have that problem. I am interesting. I write about all kinds of stuff that interests me. I am not conceited enough to think that I am so unique that no one thinks as I do. I’m one of a million. If it piques my curiosity, then it may someone else’s too.
You’re sitting on the fence
There’s a lot of writers who are fence-sitters. Readers hate it. They want you to be clear and confident with your points.
A piece of writing that doesn’t take a side is trying to please everybody, therefore pleasing nobody and becoming low-quality content.
I’m confident in my ability to be opinionated. Ergo I opine. As a kid, I used to LOVE that segment of 60 Minutes where at the very end they would have, Point Counter-Point. There were always the same two journalists taking opposite sides of any topic and argue their stance. Yes, I was a weirdly entertained child.
You’re chasing the news
When you write about newsworthy items, you substantially increase your competition. If the president of the United States does something stupid, then you can guarantee writers all around the world are writing about it. This means when a reader sees yet another headline talking about a topic that is all over social media, they’re likely to say to themselves “I’ve already read about this.”
Lawd Jesus, I’ve gone from sparked to triggered now.
IF I READ ONE MORE DAMN ARTICLE THAT HAS THE WORD TRUMP IN IT AND IT’S BEING USED AS A PROPER NOUN, SO HELP ME GOD…
I’ll be doing the walk of shame on the 6 o’clock news in an orange jumpsuit. The man has been gone from the WH for months now and you’re STILL talking about him? Is that all you’ve got? And you have the audacity to call yourself a writer? WTF.
Go color and hug a puppy FFS.
But all this form of chaos writing does is solve nothing in terms of the mess inside the writer’s head. Readers don’t want more problems in their life as they already have enough.
It’s your human nature to see the negatives of the world and call for the end of humanity. It’s survival. But it’s really shitty writing.
Which is one reason I have this Sparked series. To show that there are always at least two sides to every story.
Sound less angry.
Be like Genius Turner and insert real-world conversations into your pieces to bring them to life for the reader.
Throw some humor in your stories.
- I’m screwed.
- Not in a million years with all the halos in the universe could I ever pull that off.
- -sigh- Saved again.
You can read Your Views Aren’t Down. Your Quality Has Massively Dropped. by Tim Denning here.