StrikingViper69
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That's pretty cool, thank you for sharing it.
When I first started writing books and they started selling, it was very easy for me to write a lot every day. I knew that my input translated into real-world rewards.
But when you're on a roll it's quite easy to do that.
It's only when you're not getting anything out of a given activity that you can see if you really can't NOT do it. For example, I had a business helping people publish books. The moment I shut it down, I stopped helping people publish books. I could very easily stop doing it. But I've never stopped writing.
They're too different. Forums and, to a smaller extent, Facebook groups are about exchanging longer responses and generally sharing more thoughts in a more focused way. Social media is mostly about interruption, catchy content, and—what makes it so inefficient for writers—recency (only new content gets exposure).
From my observation, dating, health, and wealth primarily apply to Internet marketers and their digital or physical products promising fast results (usually scams). Weight loss pills. Get your ex back ebooks. A rapidly scalable passive income system.
The problem with newsletters is that they don't sell a specific solution. In each issue you're writing about something different. Yes, a cycling newsletter will help cyclists but its value isn't the same as a better bike, more comfortable biking shorts, or skill-specific coaching.
It's like with my discomfort newsletter. I highly doubt I'd have more than a few paid subscribers. But I'm pretty sure if I were to write an ebook solving a specific problem (say, how to bounce back after letting yourself go too much) it would sell many more copies (still not enough to consider it a real business, though).
And the worst thing is that many writers today accept this as the current state of things. There's very little focus on writing timeless pieces because the most popular places where people now post content don't reward you for it. The platforms prefer a new repetitive piece of content every day than an occasional thought-out piece that would still provide value a few years from now.
Sounds like an awesome business opportunity for a productized service.
The platforms might, but Google is another matter. I was using a blog to promote my online guitar courses a while ago. While I don't sell anything from it, it pulls over 3000 people a month from SEO. I haven't updated it for a few months and the popular articles still pull a consistent amount of people from Google.
So Google will reward well written long form writing. If you want to write quality long form articles, maybe a blog format will work for you, as a vehicle to have your writing do something, if nothing else.
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