Sunday, January 20, 2008, 11:10am
Writing What You Know, And Admitting What You Don’t
Last night I received a very polite email asking my opinion on a specific affiliate program. Because I wasn’t familiar with that particular program, I couldn’t be much help and replied with an apology for my lack of knowledge on the subject. I also asked that he keep me informed about his success in the program as I was (and am) quite interested.
From this exchange, I realized that probably one of the most important qualities of a successful writer is his or her ability to write from experience and knowledge, without the “fluff”. It’s easy to report the news or regurgitate another story especially as a blogger when news is real-time and continuous, but it’s more meaningful to really learn about something and then write about the experience.
I suppose that’s something I should keep in mind myself.
2 Comments on "Writing What You Know, And Admitting What You Don’t"...
Tom Reynolds at 11:10am on Sunday, January 20, 2008
A lot of blogs start out writing what they know, then try to hard to get into other topics. Usually I end up unsubscribing from those blogs.
Stefan at 11:10am on Sunday, January 20, 2008
@Tom, @Paul - You see this all the time. Some guy talking about making money online or some other thing and then you look at posts and they’re just forwarding the same news story again and again.
Original content is where it’s at.