When you are crazy about all things related to writing and researching, you find yourself opening up to just about any topic out there as a potential for your next article or blog posting. The problem with that is you become a 'jack of all trades, master of none'. Yes, you are intelligent enough to learn about any subject to the point where you can discuss it briefly. But I think what sets a writer truly apart is one who can find one or two topics that he/she is deeply interested in and commit to those topics. When this happens, you tend to dig a lot deeper into a subject and therefore come up with more unique, original angles resulting in more compelling copy.
So, here I am struggling to find my niche so I can get down to business and FOCUS already! What I have decided for sure is that I would like to concentrate on my passions. Other than writing they are: karate, motorcycles, and the elderly. So at this point I have been researching places to market my karate writing while simultaneously reading a lot about motorcycles. (Although I ride one, I still consider myself a novice and only qualified to write from that perspective). As far as the elderly go, well, I'm unsure where that market will take me. All I know is that I feel there are certain portions of the senior population who are virtually treated as throw aways and I am trying to figure out what can be done to highlight this. Any ideas are welcome.
In the meantime, I'll continue to read, write and surf to see where these subjects will take me.
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