Dilemma & Lifestyle of Writers

Many of you out there believe that the job & lifestyle of a writer is easy. We Sit-around all day; all week and suddenly we write something and voila! job’s done. Well! You wouldn’t be wrong because that’s how it looks from your side of the wall. Let me paint you a picture of our side of the wall.

Yes! We writers sit around all day all week but that’s just our physical posture, but in truth, our mind is going nuts with recurring questions all the time. What should I write about? What could be the title? What could be the matter/ content? And trust me it’s no piece of cake. Even when you’re doing something else, a bug crawls up your brain and says “Hey! This seems nice I could write about this. Hell! I am gonna write about this.” But by the time you actually start writing it’s all gone.  What seemed like a nice topic to write about now seems stupid.

See! The thing is writing isn’t much of job for us. It’s a habit; a hobby; a necessity; an addiction; or may be even an itch, an itch that we can’t scratch. The only thing is we made a profession out of it so we can do what we like and still be able to pay the bills. We are diversified to; we are authors/novelists, content-writers, copy-writers, columnist, blogger and much more. Shit! We can even form up a word and give it a definition. You know why? Cause every piece of paper you read is in one way or another written/edited/formatted by a writer. We all different types of writers have our own issues to deal with. For Author/Novelist, it is the sheer pressure of completing the novel, and it’s not just about writing what’s in our mind it’s more about writing the story in a manner that would be clear in the mind of the reader. Authors spend most of their time working on a book and there are times when the book that they finished isn’t good enough for publishing, sadly they never transform from manuscript/draft to a published book and there goes their effort down the drain. For bloggers, the main issue is what to write about? And how to start it? We even have to re-think titles of the article over and over again because that’s what catches the attention of the reader in the first place. For content and copywriters, the most difficult part is to figure out the matter because they know what they have to write about they just have to figure out what it is they could write about it. So, if you think writing is easy then think again, and if you reach the same conclusion again then start writing something. And yeah it’s true anybody can be a writer, just as anybody can be anything all they gotta do is put their mind to it.

In all honesty, most of us I mean like 99% of us writers are in fact writers by choice, it’s not that we couldn’t do anything it’s just that we didn’t want to. And like said our lifestyle is hard but it ain’t bad and I mean at all. It’s pretty freaking amazing. We do work by choice and work of choice. We have flexible hours of work and the timeline of delivery is somewhat flexible too. Shit! We can even sit around all day say we are thinking!!! Waiting for inspiration!! We win most of our arguments except when there is a woman on the other side of the argument, we are able to profoundly serve sarcasm with pure intent of pleasure , and when someone is mad at us we know what to say too.

And most of all we do what we like to do, we do it whenever we want to do it and from where ever we prefer to do it. Even as a writer I can’t put it in words but it gives an amazing sense of feeling when your profession is your hobby.  I mean, imagine! You are sitting on a roof or a garden close to nature or even your room where you feel comfortable not just physically but mentally too and a cup of coffee on the side and music playing and all that mesmerizing stuff and this is where you actually do what you like and it even earns you money. It’s like earning money for living. And To all fellow writers: When I was drafting this article I had an idea of creating our own legit network. So I built a group on Facebook & LinkedIn which I will closely monitor so as to filter unwanted and unwelcomed elements out. Join me if you want. It’s called Global Writer’s Network.

Branding by Hashtag..!

It’s highly unlikely to search on Google for something and come up with “No Results Found”.  It happened to me. I searched for hashtag of my not so famous blog called Its Diversified (itsdiversified.blogspot.com)

Well! It had been a year since I’d been operating a blog via Blogspot. I’d been on & off, having no consistency with posting timeline I never got much views. The more I explored the more I got fascinated and interested. As any other writer I wanted my words to reach more and more readers. So, I shared my posts a lot then one day it hit me, why not try to brand it. Using all those hashtags while posting on SNSs (Social Networking Sites) I realized I could brand my blog with a certain hashtag of its own. As first instinct I went and searched for #itsdiversified on google luckily enough I found it to be dead as google showed no result for search & same thing happened on all SNSs (Twitter, Facebook, G+ LinkedIn, Instagram & Pinterest) so didn’t had to look any further.

This was a huge breakthrough for me cause now in a way I get to own a hashtag as no one currently uses this (#itsdiversified) hashtag so when the only posts in relevant searches  would lead directly to me and my content on blog. Currently the hashtag is still not used by any other people but I am working and its promotion cause once it become trending and people start using it then it would mount to branding of blog. Phrase “Its diversified” also happens to be a phrase that could be commonly used by people if it were to be a noun it would have been a lot harder to promote it (But not impossible). #itsdiversified could be used in all sorts of posts tagging all I have to do is promote it in a way that people start taking it into a notice and start using it if they feel its need. If #itsdiversified becomes trending enough then as being its base brick it would increase my blogs visibility, because being all initial posts of #itsdiversified linking to me and my blog google has learnt to prioritize my posts. This could be understood as teaching Google (Its worms) to direct themselves at my posts when & if #itsdiversified is searched.

Similarly creating and owning a hashtag could help you in branding. No matter what business or start-up you have what product you are selling or if you are profiling yourself, hashtag building would help a lot. From my point of view Hashtag creating & building is one the best branding techniques if it happens to pan out. As I have never seen branding by hashtag creating I cannot certify it as a commonly used or verified method of branding. I had an idea for promotion of my business (In this case my blog) and worked on it.

It doesn’t take a genius to understand that what I am saying makes sense even though you’re reading it for the first time that if a hashtag is created by you and becomes trending you would definitely get traffic. Besides out of all the hashtags you use do you know anyone who ever could certify that he/she is the creator of it or he/she posted the first post on internet. I mean if someone came up to you and say I was the first person to use #awesome on whole internet your first response would be “Yeah Right!” wouldn’t it. But in case of #itsdiversified I can easily certify it. As I kept track of my progress and made a video in which you would find the complete timeline of how I created #itsdiversified and initial results of google and all SNS that I searched. But don’t take my word for it, you can search for yourself on google and realize that results on it directs to me and my blog. Moreover you can search on any of the social networking sit (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn etc.) for #itsdiversified and you would find top posts linking to me and my business (Blog). Though this method of branding by hashtag creation is not acknowledged by any of public figures I (a small blogger) could state for a fact that I have observed a certain amount of hike in viewers of my blog.