I've been writing since 2011, so let no one tell you that content creating is easy. If you take a look at some of the best content creators around... Maybe the ones you watch on YouTube, on the ones you read on other websites or maybe the ones that have a way appealing to you, some of them had at one time or the other done things differently before they decided to change.
Back in the days, I have a league of friends where we mostly blogged on blogspot. It was this experience that led me to believing that you have to enjoy creating in other to be naturally motivated. Natural motivation to create comes with a passion, without passion you cannot hone a skill, passion creates a string of consistency which in turn makes you better as you go on.
Now failing is an aspect that comes with creating, it's through this process that chose to become the kind of creator you want to be. I was born into a family that loved books, I read the ideas of a lot of authors, and as I grew, I use to relate a lot of my experiences with the things I've read, while I experienced a lot of contradiction, this was how I began to form counter ideas.
To me, life doesn't always end well the way it's often portrayed, but then as I grew older I realized that many authors wrote these fiction in other to influence people to be better. I expressed my creating in so many aspects, I drew, I acted, I did comic paintings, I sculpted, and I wrote.
At the end of the day, I decided it was writing that I was better at. I did not necessarily fail in the other aspects, I just felt that writing was a way I could communicate better. However, writing came with genre as well, and I started out expressing my opinionated views as feedback to the ideologies held by others.
When Facebook became a thing for me in 2015 I got a gig through it, (Facebook) I was writing for a website, earning some side Monday. I was however still blogging on the side, even when I had no audience reading them. However, when I found a platform, an audience inadvertently came with it. Because it was paid, I had to change, had to adapt, had to give in more.
This is the issue with a lot of writers, they feel that they do not need to change as their style and methods were absolutely spot on. Once you become a paid author, this automatically changes.
This is because paid writing means you have to write to attract and captivate. In my time learning news-gathering and communication I came to understand that naturally, people are slowly distracted when it comes to reading, the advent of technology means people would prefer to look, watch rather than to pay attention or read.
When it comes to writing on the internet, writing a periodical or blogging and more, there's the need to conform to the changes or the details suggested by the feedback of the reader, this is because their presence keeps you monetized. When I came to the chain in late 2017, it was the second time I experienced what it felt like to have an audience, howbeit, this time, a heterogeneous audience.
Should you be writing, the purpose determines what it turns out to become. To survive in a place as the chain, you eventually need to evolve, unless your niche is marketable and valuable already. However, a few people might not want to create here for the money, they might see the chain as a platform that doesn't conform to censorship and hence they're using it as a space to document their life work. Moreover, because the chain was mainly a "blog n' earn sphere" before it began to evolve, the feedback of people would eventually tilt you to some strings of change.
Interaction is a way through which people find the need to change or become more. This is why I feel that the ability to network is a skill on its own that you need to possess as a content creator. When it comes to the creating and blogging spectrum, Hive is a conglomerate of diverse creators, with different niche and different backgrounds, style, ideologies and scope, what you'll call M.O. (modus operandi) and hence networking is the only way which they can find common ground.
This networking, however, is a way through which diverse creative concepts are created. Different people with different types of exposures have a way of influencing themselves and hence, this is how brilliant ideas are being born. When there's an interconnection between creator and consumers, vice versa there's bound to be a change, not totally, but in some important aspect.
People learn how to network by consistently interacting and studying what works better. Engagement is part of networking and through the process, people learn how to consume rightly and how to relay the appropriate feedback.
Not even on the blockchain alone, networking is how many brand Influencers gain traction on social medias. There must be an attraction that brings and keeps an audience, and this singular skill is what keeps a lot of creators on the internet in business. When hive becomes bigger for example, it would become even more difficult to keep an audience for example and this is because better creators will come, and the big investors will choose the contents through which they can pitch their support.
It's purely business, nothing more. Back to creating, if you're planning to be monetized, you'll definitely have to move with trend and change, this is because there's competition for the $$$$ and sometimes the feedbacks of consumers determines the change a content creator should cultivate.
Honing your creative skills in general is often proportional to how you study what works or what doesn't. Networking and creating are two skills that maligns, eventually it takes you very far.
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My name is @Josediccus, a young Nigerian entrepreneur who is a Vlogger, A Psychologist, Poet, Sports Writer/Analyst & Personal Finance Coach. I'm using my contents as a process to create shared meaning as well as create expressions through which people on/off hive can relate. I believe content is a process to be enjoyed and relished and I'm up for any collaborations in my field stated above. Cheers
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