I know it is not an easy path to go down as a writer or as a blogger nowadays. But it is still a dream and I came across this book called “How to live on the royalties from your book”. Written by the best seller writer Senda Takuya.
TO BE HONEST, it changes how I look at “writing”, and how I take different platform. How I write on each of them is slightly different now. The sound of me, the word choice…etc
It is still me, I am doing what I do and write what I write. I just tailor the content for specific platforms.
Wordings
OK words. Open a thesaurus and see how many words are there for same meaning. Each of them give a different feeling to the readers. Some of them may not feel right for you, but feel right for the reader on that platform.
Then as a writer, a service provider, you should COPE WITH IT.
Write what you want with words you like is romantic, so damn romantic. But romantic can’t help you get followers and newsletter subscriber. Being romantic cannot give you paychecks. Being practical, tailor the wordings for the reader does. So do the job.
Content
I write on multiple platforms:
Medium, Vocus.cc and Matters each of them is serving different people, so I give different content.
What you write work for somebody, doesn’t mean it work with everybody. Choose platform wisely.
Writers pick the best publisher to work with, PR need to pick the suitable journalist to work with.
Online Writer Picks The Platform That Work For Them
First, is the language. I might have some Chinese content here on Medium, because I do have some Chinese reader here. I mostly write in English. Same goes for Japanese in Ameba and pure Chinese for Vocus.cc and Matters
The content itself comes next. I write about writing and career in Medium, about platform choice, about career tips and things like that. But I seldom post them on Vocus and Matters. Because the reader pool on these topic is small on those platform and the competition is high.
I mainly write about books on the two Chinese platform. But one will be more profession non-fictions, while the other one will focus on fiction and blockchain. Just because the taste of the reader is different. I am not good at writing about fiction, but if I want to earn on that platform writing about books, which I enjoy. I have to deal with it and practice till I make it.
Your voice
The style of your writing affects how your readers feel.
On medium, I write as professional sounded as I could. I get less personal warmth in it.
On Vocus.cc, I write with a professional tone but with a small twist in it. Sometime I try to make my words have a little bit of fun elements. Still keep things informational.
On Matters, I write with a lot of personal touches. Feel like I am speaking to a fellow friend. Less sense more sensibility.
This is how I do with the same content(which is the book I am writing about now). Still the same me, still the same content, different style.
It is not how you want to sound like, is how your readers wants. The most personal writing that completely serve your own will? Leave it to you dear diary.
Money
Down to the most important thing. How do you earn money from it?
For writer like Senda, they work well with the publisher. Give draft to publisher at the right timing, help the publisher to do promotion, do as many things as they can to get the sales high. Then the book can have second batch printed, money flows in.
For online writer, we choose platforms with the monetize plan that work for us. Then share our own work out, help the platform get subscribers or help yourself get subscribers. For some platforms like Matters, Noise.cash, Potato, Bitclout etc. they let you earn cryptos.
At the end of the day, the most important thing is to create the best content you can give.
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