You 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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I don’t have to be ashamed when I don’t know something. I used to be but no longer. I think of the passage from Ralph Waldo Emerson’s famous essay “Self- Reliance”: ‘There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance’…
When you are ashamed of what you don’t know you are comparing yourself to someone else. I had to accept who I was, whatever my portion of knowledge I possessed and go on from there.
Comparing myself to someone else just got in the way. I had to accept who I was. There would always be others who knew more and conversely who knew less.
My body of knowledge started off with me, whatever my limitations and that was the way it was. Envy, which had turned into shame, just got in the way. Every time I read those lines of Emerson’s I could relax. I no longer had to be ashamed of what I did not know.
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