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Relatability Is Your Superpower as a Writer
Style and writing voice will come only after
From the very first time, I have always treated writing strategically. It was never random, it was never ranting. I did my observations long before I started to publish my first articles. I was trying to figure out what are the things that are working and how to write pieces that can get readership.
Then when I already had a back catalogue of a substantial amount of articles, I started to monitor all my own articles to. Looking for queues, finetuning the topics, the voice, the style and the formatting even.
There is one thing that stands out from the ocean of articles, a feature that unites all the articles that are quite successful — on their own levels.
And this is relatability.
When you write for an audience, it’s not a lonely job anymore. You don’t journal, you don’t free write, you don’t allow yourself to ramble aimlessly, because what you need to consider first and foremost is that there will be hopefully somewhere out there who will read it, and so it needs to be valuable for them.
There are several ways that you can be valuable for your readers — providing the right kind of information in an easy to digest way. Helping them with a problem based on your own…
