The Anguish of Trying To Know What Your Readers Want
The mistakes and discoveries you make along the way
When you’re starting out your career as an online writer or a blogger, you will hear many people say that one key is trying to find your niche. A niche is very important because it gives you focus. When you write something, you know that it would be for a targeted set of readers.
But trying to find that niche in itself is never easy.
How narrow would you scale down your topics? Or how wide can you possibly reach? When you try to widen your market, you risk not being focused on writing. However, when you narrow it too much, you will only be writing to very few people who would be interested in your posts. Can you possibly make a living doing that?
As you try to experiment on this, you experience many mistakes along the way.
You do this and you do that, you try to fit in but you fail. You try to be relevant to people but no one cares. And the truth is that rejection hurts.
Perhaps this is why many writers don’t think about these things anymore. They write only about topics that come from within, things they authentically want to express. For isn’t this where…
