Writers Only Have Three Jobs; You’re Probably Failing at One of Them
Unless you can put your own needs aside while you write, you’re missing the most important thing your readers want from you
Repeat after me: It’s not about me. Readers don’t care if I write a viral story or not. Readers don’t care if I get paid or not. Readers think about themselves. Every part of my job as a writer should be reader-centered.
Until you start to repeat that in your head every time your fingers hit the keyboard, you are going nowhere as a writer. Once you master that, then you must keep the three writer jobs in mind: informer, entertainer, helper.
Providing information is the easiest writer job, but bots are stealing those jobs this very minute
To beat the bots, you must be able to combine the roles of informer with entertainer, helper, or both.
I can hear your brain wheels grinding. Aren’t informer and helper kind of the same, though? Yes, and no. You can write simple information that helps the reader in some way, but it’s the most simplistic part of being a writer. Information is more abundant now than it’s ever been in the history of mankind. Your 800 words of pure…
