Jan
8
2010
Why You Can’t Follow Trends In Writing
Author: siggyYou can’t follow trends concerning the subject matter you write about. You can’t possibly remain genuine. You have to write about what is deepest in your soul, that which is begging to get out.
There was a popular book out a while ago, “Do What You Love The Money Will Follow.” Maybe someone should write a book titled, “Write About What You Love Money Will Follow.” There are no guarantees you will become rich but someone out there will want to read it and buy your book.
I like the famous quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson in his essay of Self-Reliance: ‘There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction: that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better for worse as his portion;…’ You have to mine the field that is only given to you. We are all wired differently and have different concerns. That is all you can explore as a writer. The better you do it and the more genuine, the more people will want to read it. No one said you will necessarily become rich in the process but at least some people will care about what you write for it was you, you expressed.
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January 8th, 2010 at 10:32 am
‘We are all wired differently’… I remember from the earliest being intrigued by stories that disappointed me. I would think about how they should have been done, the more interesting direction they should have taken. I realised one day that many of them were just fine, but different from what I hoped. It was my own creative wiring starting to fire.
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