I have been writing on hive for I think two years plus now, it's not always been consistent, but I've managed to just keep taking steps everyday. One of the things I was told when I joined was to find my niche, and try to focus on that as it'll help. But for me it hasn't been so straightforward. In my time I have written about various things. I have written about shoemaking, written fiction, written about crypto, written about sports (mainly football and chess), participated in prompts, written about my thoughts and views, recently I wrote about a book, and right now I'm just jumping back and forth between various things I can write on. When an idea comes in I make sure to pen it down,and write about it when I'm opportuned. I also participate in various prompts when I feel like my previous idea may be too much for me to write about at the time (that's what I'm doing now).
Why did I tell you all of this? So you can see how hard it was for me to decide when I came across this week's hivenaija prompt.
ɪғ ᴇᴠᴇʀʏ ᴍᴇᴍʙᴇʀ ᴏɴ ʜɪᴠᴇ ʜᴀᴅ ᴛᴏ ᴄʜᴏᴏsᴇ ᴏɴᴇ ɴɪᴄʜᴇ, ᴡʜᴀᴛ ᴡᴏᴜʟᴅ ʏᴏᴜ ɢᴏ ғᴏʀ? sᴏᴍᴇᴛʜɪɴɢ ʏᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ'ᴛ ʀᴜɴ ᴏғ ɪᴅᴇᴀs ᴏʀ ᴋɴᴏᴡʟᴇᴅɢᴇ ᴀʙᴏᴜᴛ
I like challenges, so of course I had to participate. I racked my brain a bit, and I think I found the best answer for me. I think It would have to be writing down my thoughts and self reflections. I am not really sure what exactly to call it, but I'd say it's somewhere along the lines of motivational speaking, lol. I am by no means a motivational speaker, but lately I am in what I called my philosophical phase on hive.
I have noticed most of my recent posts have leaned towards self reflection, and just talking about my perception of how I view the world. The things we think about and do both consciously and unconsciously.
At first I was trying to fight it but now I'm just going with the flow. Thinking communities,we have two communities for those types of posts, we have the Thoughtfuldailypost community which I really like a lot. Then we also have the Reflection community. I tend to post more in reflections community, because with Thoughtfuldailypost I usually feel it has to be motivational, but in reflection, it's just you and your thoughts.
I feel like writing about my thoughts and reflections will be the easiest for me because I think quite a lot, and with this I'd almost certainly never run out of ideas. New things happen everyday, and I'm always one who wants to analyze every situation and look at it really closely with a magnifying glass. It's what helps me to minimize making the same mistakes more than once.
Ultimately I feel if I was to choose any of my other interests, I'd either get bored eventually, or maybe I'd get lazy because some of them are really hard to do very frequently. This is definitely the best option for me. It's easy, and it just comes naturally, definitely a deal breaker.
Well I'm so lucky the time will never come when I'll have to choose only one niche, I am happy being nicheless. Till we meet again (probably on a completely different type of post 😝).