Great Writers Do These Two Things (Advice From A Fulltime Writer)
“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing about.”
Benjamin Franklin
If you’re a new writer, the easiest advice somebody can give to you is to start writing. And, this is good advice. But there’s another side to that same coin.
Just as much as you need to write a lot, you need to have something to write about. If you mix a lack of writing experience with real world life experience, something interesting happens.
A story.
Suddenly, your words lose their fluff. You’re not writing from thought, your writing from experience. You’re the only one who can stand in your vantage point. You’re the only one who can convey what that point feels like.
I started traveling the world 15 months ago. In this time, I’ve walked on three continents, through 14 countries and explored 17 USA states. I also, very stupidly, decided to start my writing business at the same time. Then, I decided to create a library to organize content writer’s published articles.
It was a lot, but I wrote about the entire experience. In a little over 200 Quora articles, my journey has been chronicled.
I had the vantage point of a new writer trying to make it big, all while traveling the world and learning life truths on a daily basis.
It gave me a story.
And it helped me succeed as a writer.
With close to one million Quora views, I wouldn’t be able to have the impact I do now without that experience. It gave me the vantage point to write about what others were wondering about. People are curious as to what it’s like to travel the world and write. I tell them.
And that’s vantage point is where great writers are born.
