Learn more and more skills! You need knowledge, understanding and expertise to build authority on any field, and in diverse writing, you need to acquire at least two different skills which you can authoritatively write about.

Why do you need these skills?

Because you can’t write about what you know nothing about.

For example, I’m able to make sense as a relationship writer because I have handled some of these issues before and it took me time learning. My teaching may not always be similar to what is popular, but the authority and the certainty is the trophy. Many write because they want to write and know how to write, but I write because I know what I’m writing about and believe in what I’m writing. Not only that, I’ve done most of the tips personally and have had people implement some to know how it’ll turn out in reality, because I wouldn’t want to feed you legends and myths, I want you to know what works and what doesn’t work firsthand.

In the grief section of this blog, I write with so much authority and passion because this is something I’ve been through and is still going through.

In the business section… Of course, I don’t need to inform you that I’m into business, do I? 

 And I’m someone who started from scratch and figured things out through many trials and errors, so I’d want you to avoid the mistakes I made and directly jump into the right path.

And on the writing aspect, I don’t need to tell you that I’m a writer because I guess you’re currently reading my material, you know…

But instead of calling myself a relationship expert or a business expert or anything, I choose to be called a “diverse writer”, because all these other skills help fulfill my writing dynamics, it shows that I can easily blend my writing and adapt to many topics without blabbing, stuttering or delivering total nonsense. But at the end of the day, no matter what is on this blog, they all come down to writing, and that is what matters to me personally.

So, that is what I mean by “acquiring more skills”. It makes it possible and easy for you to sound like an expert or actually be an expert when embracing many and different writing angles. It adds flavour and colour to your talent as a writer.

You know, as a writer or maybe even a blogger, you may have been told/taught that you need to have ‘unique contents’ and ‘unpopular opinions’, however, no one ever tells you what these mean in reality.

Of course, you’re going to sound like a total idiot if you throw in unfounded materials and information that people simply know is incorrect or does not agree with common sense or even genius.

What having ‘unique contents’ and ‘unpopular opinions’ mean is that you have to be bold enough to tow the path others in your field are afraid of daring. It means you need to research and produce content that people haven’t thought of, yet would be glad to know about. It means you have to expose all the lies that others in your field have been feeding innocent information consumers, you have to become their rescuer and Messiah against all these ridiculous lies or undertold truth.

How can you achieve all these?
Simple!
By learning more skills. By researching and continuing to research. By not being afraid of doing something new and out of the blues. By trying your very best to be as correct and relatable as possible. By being that go-to information zone which your audience will eventually come to respect and trust.
Don’t just release materials because you need to push out content, make sure you set standards and release materials only when they meet those standards. Keep releasing more and more and don’t hold back, very soon, your talent and skills might become so unbelievable that people might start to think that you just can’t be the only brain and hands behind all those wonders.

Writing isn’t as hard as it’s made to look, you just need passion, dedication, consistency, and of course the willingness to keep learning and never stop learning.

Whatever I teach, I teach from either my personal experience or the experience of someone I’ve helped, but bottom line, I have firsthand knowledge of these things and is trying to protect you from making those same mistakes.

I was a writer from a very young age, but in 2020 I decided to go public with my craft (though not the very first attempt). Before I decided totally on what to do, I researched online on existing blogs and read several books hoping to gain more information and experience, but I noticed a pattern, everything was repetitive, there were only alterations here and there, remodeling and slight additions and subtractions. There were even those who shamelessly plagiarize! Either they rebirth materials in public domains or they copy current copyrights. The audacity…

I know many of these people have made millions of dollars from putting little effort, but surely, it did not add to their skills and wisdom, just their bank account. But I want you, my dear reader, to have both. Money is important, and you will have it. But I want you to have the wisdom and the authority to represent your work.

Since after the 1990s when the first set of bloggers put in the work, people no longer care about quality, just their bank account and that’s not good enough. Go on many relationship blogs, YouTube channels, books and other mediums, you’ll mostly see the same information, some simply copy and paste, while the most righteous ones change the wordings and other slight adjustments here and there, but they’re never interested in doing all the work.

So today, I need you to change your orientation. Be unique. Be extra. Get the work done.

Avoid:

Repeating contents from other blogs, or worse, copy and paste.

Any sort of plagiarism or any content not coming from your authority.

There is this disturbing advice out there that you can make money remaking other people’s materials either as eBooks, blogs, audio, video, etc., in as much as that might make you some quick money stress-free, but that hurts your reputation and will never make you an expert or authority.
Listen, these people advertising this sort of methods don’t care about you, by buying their tutorials and joining their email lists when they offer freebies, you’re making them some quick dollars and that’s all they’ll ever care about, not how you end up afterwards.

This is quite a controversial topic and a fragile one, but the truth must be said. I wish someone told me this earlier than I learned it myself the most annoying way (not like many people care enough to tell us anyway).

THE REASON YOU MUST AVOID REPEATING CONTENT

It annoys consumers!!!

I can’t emphasize this enough.

Consumers are disgusted by finding only the same things everywhere, nothing new, nothing different, nothing that works.

Imagine yourself in their shoes buying three books and their lessons are the same, you turn to the internet and nothing different, even the society offers nothing better, how would you feel?
This one mistake has led to some authors being totally boycotted by buyers because they have nothing better or different to offer, they may have one or two, or maybe even five bestsellers (because of how bestsellers are ranked), but after buyers have noticed their lack of originality, they are boycotted for life.
Or, why do you think self-published authors are still less valued among consumers than traditional authors? Because self-published materials are hardly sieved, writers just release whatever they can no matter how low value and that’s because of how easy publishing has become. But you can become that positive change that’ll bring respect and honour to self-publishing! By proving that no matter how you choose to publish, it is simply a matter of choice and not a sign of low quality and inability to reach the standards of traditional publishing.

Don’t remake existing materials to make money, this popular advice out there will ruin your entire career with no mercy. Yes, it works for a while and you may not really get into trouble though, but the money isn’t worth your reputation if you intend to truly have a long-lasting writing career and be eventually known as a writing expert. The consequence is that consumers won’t trust your judgement as a writing expert, and you therefore won’t become one. But if all you care about is the money, then do whatever you want.