There’s No Secret to Succeeding As a Creative
Stop looking for the secret, start focusing on improvement.
As a professional writer and business owner, I receive emails on a daily basis from people asking how to carve a career just like I did. It’s both flattering and disheartening. Flattering because people believe that I, a 21-year-old from England, have the wisdom to advise them on such topics. Disheartening because I don’t.
Let me backtrack a little here. I’m not going to sit here and say that I know absolutely nothing about writing or business, because that isn't true. If it were, I’d be a fraud, since that’s practically all I write about.
The truth I’m quickly learning, however, is that nobody has the answers we think they do. It’s all an illusion.
When I was just starting out, I looked up to those higher than me on the professional ladder of writing and assumed they had some magic bullet or secret hack that got them there. They didn’t.
Niklas Göke proved that to me around three years ago. Then, Nik was somebody I admired and looked up to but had never spoken to.
“Nik, what is it? What’s the one thing you and all these other writers are doing to build such huge audiences and make so much money? Come on, man. I won’t tell anybody. What’s the…
