Freelance Roadkill: the ONE fatal error you can make as a freelance writer

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There’s one fatal error you can make as a freelance writer. This error is so pernicious that if you make it, you’ll never make the income you should be making as a freelance writer.

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So what’s this fatal error? Read on.
Here’s a question for you first: what’s more important -

a) what you write, or

b) your readers?

If you chose A, you need to upgrade your thinking. You write to be READ so your readers come first.

Unfortunately, the creative spirit being what is is, writers write what they want to write, they rarely give a thought to their readers. If they do, it’s to wonder why they don’t have any.

The ONE fatal error you can make as a freelance writer

Here it is: lack of promotion.

If you don’t promote your writing, you won’t have readers. However, in order to turn promotion from a self-serving exercise in vanity, your readers come first, before you write.

Whatever you’re writing, whether it’s an article, a book, or an advertisement, think about your readers FIRST. What do they want? How can you make your writing appealing, and give them exactly what they want?

Then, when it comes to promoting your writing, you’ll know how to promote it, and you’ll feel great about your promotion, because you’re focused on your readers.

So, remember that promotion is just as important as writing, and you can make promotion easy and effective, if you remember your readers at every stage of the writing process.

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