What Is The Sweet Spot To Writing (Here)?
Look, We Are All Busy People Aren’t We?
I believe in writing. I believe in sharing my experience for the benefit of others too. Then again, as with Life — We have constraints. Unless we are full-time writers or copywriters, it is not likely to commit hours without end writing on this platform. I have businesses to straddle and I know there are many here who have day jobs too.
Many of us could be here to build an additional stream of income. I am speculating, and I think I won’t be far off. In fact, I often entertain such thoughts too. After all, who wouldn’t want to carve a plausible living without entertaining people we don’t appreciate?
But writing isn’t a walk in the park. It involves a coherent presentation of our ideas packaged in a barrage of words. That means the once-abandoned enemies of vocabulary, grammar, and expression are back to haunt us. Sometimes they are friends. At times, they are bombs on our precious time.
The point I want to explore in this story is a simple one.
“Is There A Sweet Spot To Writing Here?”
There are many success stories here within the platform. I read about millions of people making millions of bucks here. I am genuinely impressed. And I know one thing has to be true. It takes time, effort, an undying spirit, relentless hunger for growth for this to happen.
Bootstrapping to the core of our writing efforts, several points have to be covered which determines the supply side of the market equation. We have to find our sweet spot in terms of demand and supply equilibrium.
As with Economics 101, the key is to focus on the drivers of the supply narrative and not the supply curve itself.
These are the drivers I have identified via my writing experience here.
Driver 1: The Available Time On Our Hands.
The time we have the ultimate constraint in Life. Many of us have a day job, and some of us have multiple jobs. It takes our time commitment to write. And writing requires consistency.
Many of the connections I have from this platform have shared with me that shutting ourselves in a cave to produce that elusive piece of an intended viral, curated story will not happen for 99% of the population. It takes many stories before we get there.
And of course, I believe it is also true that we will not coop ourselves at home for 4 hours on a Friday evening when we are itching for entertainment. My personal experience is a testament. The story that I wrote below is estimated to be 10 minutes of readership.
However, it took me 2 separate pockets of 2 hours (total 4 hours) to read the original version, craft the story, polish it, edit it, run it through various analyzers before submitting for publication.
Are you willing to spend that amount of time? If not, we have to be meticulous in Driver 2.
Driver 2: The Topics We Choose.
When it comes to the topics we choose, those that we think of daily trumps the hot topic of the day. It could be that the hottest trending topic is about Personal Finance. But if we are not immersed in it or practicing it, we will take forever to write that topic.
Trust me. I have been there. I tried writing about Artificial Intelligence or Love stories because they are so well received here. I eventually abandoned the idea because I am not setting myself up for consistency.
I found that just scribbling my daily experiences works much better as there is no need for elaborate thinking. All I have to do is set up a writing Time-Box of 30 minutes a day and I will be in the flow.
Then that will bring us to …
Driver 3: Of Angles and Creativity.
Creativity cannot be deliberate. It just doesn’t happen that way. It happens when we start disengaging from the perspectives of others and allowing our minds to wonder.
This is why I write a lot about my daily experiences. I don’t believe that we see things the same way. Just like the snail and the robot story. The best consideration for the snail isn’t removing the shell. They don’t move faster. They die.
Likewise, the robot isn’t out to steal our jobs. They are there to free our time for things that matter.
When we write how we think — We present perspectives.
My Humble Thoughts.
We all have our sweet spots for writing. Some of us are great critiques of policies (compliments by the way!), others are natural at Love Stories. We have to get back to our fundamentals. We have to be aware of who we are and what ideals, beliefs do we embody.
For me, writing about daily observations works. I love to watch the environment around me and ask “Hmm, why is this so?”. It works well for me.
And oh. Always check how much time we have. Sometimes all we have is 15 minutes on a commute. Thus — if we believe in writing for the better — it would be brilliant to write within the constraints of our availability.
This is what I think “Sweet Spot” to writing should be.
Happy Writing My Dear Friends,
Aldric
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Because simplicity adds value.
Simplicity helps us gain clarity, and clarity helps us to grow.
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