I recently read and shared this post titled 3 essential reasons why all writers should blog.
The reasons are sound, and I agree:
- Practice
- Testing ideas
- Build an audience
As the original post leads with, blogging has kind of gone of out style.
Plenty of people use Twitter or some other social media platform, sure. But blogging is not quite the same.
If you subscribe to the newsletter, then you learned last week that I torpedoed a project I was working on. It’s something I am passionate about, but it’s also incredibly time intensive and I just didn’t want to fully commit (yet).
Writing here is the thing that I enjoy. It’s simple and I get to write what I want.
But it also helps with those three reasons. Without question, the practice I get from writing here helps when I write elsewhere – especially for external audiences.
It also allows me to test ideas. Trust me, I know exactly what kind of articles I could write if I wanted to make waves. I’ve done it before, and a lot of that learning came from experimentation.
And yes, this is a way to build an audience. It’s slow, for sure. But what I’ve found is that whatever your “thing” is, there’s an audience out there for it. It doesn’t matter how niche it is, they’re out there. And they want to be a part of it.
Someone has to do the writing.
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