Thankfully, writing community is extremely supportive of each other. You have to be a writer, a marketer, a social media manager, basically an expert of the online world to promote your brand and words to as many people as possible. As much as internet has helped everyone to showcase their talents, it has also cluttered the way to be on top! Almost, everyone’s trying to be a blogger, a creator, a writer, an author and on top of that, they may be doing it better than you. If you’re a writer, you have to face and accept the fact that there is immense competition in the industry. Someone had to say it, and I am not afraid to. #8 Competition.Writing is the most competitive form of work. All a writer ever wants, is for people to respect his/her words and appreciate the effort he/she has put in to write something! Any article we write is like our baby! So please love it and respect the effort! First of all, if you copy someone else’s work and DON’T give them credit, STOP CALLING YOURSELF A WRITER. Plagiarism is a BIGGEST BANE in writing community. The most fearful times for writers are the question of authenticity. Even multiple times a day! How many hits my blog got, how many people liked my post, how many people visited my site! And don’t get me started with a book statistics! If you’ve published a book, you know it! For a writer, stats is like sugar addiction! You know it’s going to harm you, yet you consume it everyday. For a writer, expectations to be better than your yesterday self are so high, that sometimes we forget that the reality will always belong to us anyway! #5 Expectations.Expectations to over do our previous write-ups, previous books or previous hits! Expectations that with each post, you become a better writer, even if nobody tells you so. Your words matter to you, but will they matter to your audience?! After hitting publish, you’ll be in fear of non-acceptance. You can be the most fearless person in the room, yet right before you hit publish for a blog post or a book, you’ll be anxious. I won’t say writers are untouchable to exhaustion! Even the most passionate ones get exhausted once in a while! And just like every other creative person, we take a break and recharge our brain. Especially, if you’re into “I want to write something different” thing! It’s about running out of topics to write about. Already scary, isn’t it! I have this almost every month!! Running out of words, will & intention to write anymore!! You know it if you’re a writer, that you struggle every day. As a writer, you have insecurities & doubts. ![]() However, the WRITERS, who have a clear head and the ones who’re clueless, have something in common. The writers I am talking about are the emotional ones, for whom writing is their passion, not the ones who’re selling writing courses on their websites! Those aren’t writers, those are marketers. ![]() They find their creative topics within their genre because they know where to look and how! Well, I adore all of them! And the ones like me, who are clueless and write about WHATEVER, I understand. They don’t have to wander in the creative realm for different topics. Some of them are straightforward and damn clear about what they will write about. Not every writer struggles with that, though. I don’t know what works best for me and I have no idea when I’ll follow just ONE genre to write about! As of now, I write what I am feeling! Maybe that’s my writing voice, PERSONAL. Yet, I’ll speak only for myself today! Writing isn’t a piece of cake! Well, yes, anyone CAN be a writer, as long as they’re willing to give up certain things for it! I never thought I’d call myself a writer and, to be honest, I have my doubts even today! I have realised some things that make writing one of the toughest creative jobs! Although, creativity is tough as it is. Believe it or not, people think writing is easy and anyone can be a writer.
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