DON’T SOUND LIKE EVERYONE ELSE

Will you write what fits the conventional notions or honour your own voice?

Many writers and artists who are starting out feel that their voice is unheard.

This is largely because their work is not seen yet. Their efforts as an illustrator or a blogger are not getting the exposure that it deserves.

An artist strives for an audience, he is an exhibitionist. A writer seeks readers so that the word can speak to the mind of someone.

No matter what, the art and the patron are part of the creation process.

The writer needs a reader and the reader needs a writer. The writer is a reader and the reader is a silent writer.

Doubt lurks in the mind of the artist when his work is not read or lacks traction online.

Is my writing good?

Should I write to appeal more diverse audience?

Should I dilute my message and sound more understandable?

He is met with many such questions in his mind. I have read many books that advocate bending to the swings of general writing practice.

The books are right because it is the job of the book to state what has been done before and what works.

The books are not right for you, because it has not yet explored what can be done and what could work. For you!

I believe you are doing fine as long as you are writing for humans. I would rather work on a farm if my writing is for cows and buffalos.

But there is an overhanging arch of finding an audience for your writing.

Moreover, I doubt if I will ever find an audience for your writing.

I rarely write a listicle these days.

I barely think about value while writing.

I don’t write in conventional format.

Most of my blogs are about spirituality, yet I do not speak from the place of religion and lineages.

And yet I write every day. I am fairly new to the platform of the medium as I am writing this article.

I have 75 followers and get around 1000 monthly views. I started writing three months ago. Written 63 stories so far.

I am stating this to keep a record, I am stating this to take note of my endeavour.

There is something that keeps me going.

Pro writes no matter what, even spiritual

No matter what Genre you write in, you have to show up every day.

Even if you have an audience of millions or zero.

When doctors start their practice, they sit in their clinics even if there are no patients.

Likewise, be available for your job. No matter what your mood is and how you feel about it today.

Be present.

Said so, keep working on your craft. This doesn’t mean you have to go by the books all the time. But ask yourself how you would improve every day.

For this, you will have to write every day. Reflect on your work every day, and honour how you feel about your work every day.

Even try writing outside of your areas of expertise or genre of interest.

I am also trying my hands on a genre of business and luxury just to hone the skills of this craft of writing.

Although I write spiritually leaning text on this blog, I am experimenting with condensing my experience about business and luxury on — OkTheFun

This gives me an opportunity to learn from the confluence of two seemingly different worlds.

A conflict that propels the story that you tell to yourself.

It helps me learn about writing.

Create and Create a space

It is the responsibility of an artist to find a wall for his painting.

Art pushes boundaries of acceptable and unacceptable daringly. You do it as an artist, as a writer.

If you can’t find a place to express, create one.

Curate the experience of joy you want.

The more you expose, the more you are visible.

Don’t stop on the first blog and whine about not having an audience.

Try it at least for a year before quitting.

You might end up answering questions that were not on your plate initially.

Will you write even if no one reads it?

Will you do it if you don’t get paid for it?

At this moment Medium does not offer monetisation in my country.

But I write anyway. Because it is not about writing for money.

There is an insatiable urge to pour out every day. To create.

Writing comes naturally to me, and if I don’t write on medium, I would be writing something in my notebook anyway.

But the goal here is to expose.

Expose your thoughts, work and your style as much as possible.

The more you expose, the more and more people become aware of your work and your existence.

The more they understand your world through your words, the more they are likely to connect.

I would love that!

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