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RE: The Deadpost Initiative - Week 38 - Share your most undervalued work ($15 STEEM rewards last week)
Congrats for all the winner, for you initiating the project and for the ones upvoting your post and making those prizes a reality for the 6 winners of last week.
Here is my entry for this week: https://steemit.com/blog/@acesontop/sacrificing-the-self-for-originality
Thanks for being a great Steemian and keep up with the good work!
YES!!!
I loved this, because it’s true.
Last year I was in a program, part of which was all about writing ‘copy’ (the name really gives it away doesn’t it?) for sales, to boost my business.
I was writing stuff that people loved. But this coach was saying it wasn’t good enough, not enough engagement (on other social media platforms), not converting to sales....
“Do more of this,” he’d say. “Here, run your writing through this app,” he suggested (Hemingway).
And so I did.
But it no longer became my writing, it became a machine writing.
Then someone who was a fan of my work said they’d noticed a change in my work and said my work started to look like everyone else’s.
Then I found Steemit.
Thanks for the reminder to just write what wants to emerge naturally from within me, whatever that is.
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Only 'common' strives for 'originality'. 'Original' strives for 'common'. 'Being yourself' solves those dilemmas :)
This is a very good post @acesontop. You're right, it's really hard to maintain creating quality posts. especially nowadays. Other people even consider selling their accounts because they're not earning enough or that their posts are not being supported, others got frustrated.
It's just sad that this post didn't earn enough. Maybe because it's a long read. Sometimes it's one of the reasons why ones post didn't get an upvote.
But all in all, it really is a good posts! Thank you!
Greetings, @acesontop. I liked your post. You got me form the start, I being a lit professor :)
Ironically, I usually tell my students, to lower down their anxiety, that originality (especially in responding to literature) is hard but possible. It may be unavoidable to echo things that have been said before, but there are always ways to, as you put it, be yourself, imbue your writing with some personal touch that will make it unique.