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De-risk yourself and create a content pipeline
If you've been on Medium for any period of time, you will surely have noticed the nearly unending narrative around money and how to hack your way to followers and income. This is where other writers try and convince their audience that the purpose of writing is the almighty dollar.
I disagree. Sure, money is nice, but if you just focus on money, your work will reek of desperation and struggle to stand out. To me, not only are these sorts of articles uninteresting, but they detract from a reader's ability to create good content.
To stand out, you must deliver insights that are valuable, interesting, and unique. This is where I'll probably lose some of you, but writing to trends doesn't meet any of these points. Instead, it is easy to fall into the desperation and anxiety trap when you write to pay your rent. Instead of having the luxury of time and patience to let good stories develop and share them when they're fully fleshed out, too many writers seem anxious to feed the beast and hit some sort of quota.
Making it as a writer comes down to first developing a unique strategy and then executing on it. Too often, people get warped into the "me too" tunnel and play follow the leader, with disappointing outcomes.
