If you're an author, you've probably heard this phrase most of your life: “You don't make a living writing. You should find something practical to do with your life ”.

Very intelligent and highly competent editors go through real battles. Work paid by spoons, customers who do not pay, disdain for their work, and a total lack of respect for their profession.

But still…

Take a look around us, this digital world in which so many of us spend our lives.

It is made up of 1s and 0s yes, but it is also made up of words.

Technology exists because we create words worth sharing

Texts, videos and audios, all need great writing to be worth spending time on.

If writing is your profession and your passion, you can take jobs and pitiful sums, or even bad treatment… Or choose something better, because there is something better.

There are traits, skills, and strengths that make the difference between the life of a well-paid author and that of someone who loves to write, but can't seem to get paid for it.

Here are the most important 7:

N ° 1: love

It may sound light, but if you're made to be a writer, you know what I'm talking about.

There is no substitute for the love of writing, the passion to put down the right words, to scratch your head in front of these endless drafts that are not yet as needed, and the pace around your work.

If you don't like the language, your subject matter, and putting words together, none of it really means anything to you.

I could well have used the terms compulsion, obsession, or stubbornness to illustrate this section. Whichever one you choose, it's actually about refusing to settle for low-end writing, because words count.

N ° 2: A service attitude

Writing for your own expression can be highly artistic, and supported by the desire for your own experience of truth and beauty… But as soon as money changes hands, the audience, the reader, the listener where the viewer becomes the focal point.

Professional writers work on the basis of an attitude of service to their audience. They serve them with true and beautiful words, but also with a language that meets their needs, a language that clarifies more than it embellishes.

News writers, copywriters and content creators all live at the service of their audience. No matter how clever or perfectly poetic we can find a phrase, if it isn't useful to the audience, it goes away.

And you, are you really focused on your audience?

N ° 3: The trust

If there is somethingstrange is that most of most writers capable count also among the less confident.

However, it does not have to be that way. Confidence comes from producing work by becoming a true expert and an authority. It stems from the research, the profession, and the difference you make for your audience.

Serious craftsmen are humble, and proud at the same time.

That pride and confidence comes from hours of deliberate practice, the kind of work that expands your skills and pushes you to grow. Humility comes from knowing that a true pro is continually improving, expanding, and refining.

N ° 4: training

Many writers believe that having a good voice when writing and a strong opinion on a topic qualifies you to work as a professional copywriter… Not so fast.

The great copywriters and creators of content are fine word handlers, certainly, but they are also strategists. They understand what type of content works and attracts attention, to stand out from the crowd of content on the web, and succeed in stimulating the purchase, while helping the audience to travel from an interested viewer to a loyal consumer.

Strong copywriting and content strategies come from training (and practice).

N ° 5: Discipline

You could be a brilliant word-wielder and master strategist, but if you can't stick your ass on a desk long enough to produce a sufficient amount of work, you'll never get to where you want to go.system. (And Bam! 🙂)

To earn a degree, discipline is a set of habits that can be cultivated. As a writer, you can put together " ritual", create the right working environment, adopt the behaviors of productive authors.

As a hardworking author, you also need to develop a set of habits that will allow you to meet deadlines, keep your clients up to date, and invoice them promptly.

If you are careful enough, you will get there. Habits can be difficult to set up, but luckily, once they're there, they tend to keep you on track. (That's the difference between habits and the power of the will)

N ° 6: The desire to become a marketer

Yes. There is money in the scenario (for the few who are the luckiest, there are really very big deals possible. I emphasize "little".)

You can also make some money in journalism and news writing, especially if you have great contacts.

But for the most part, if you want to make a living as an author, the fastest and most interesting way is to create content for businesses that want to have more customers.

It's interesting, lucrative, in high demand, and it will get you to explore as many different topics as you want.

You might think this kind of writing is boring… far from it. Create great content (in opposition to the mass of "drug addicts" who make 95% of the copies of the web) will appeal to your talents as a storyteller, investigator, word manipulator, travel writer, and historian.

A skilled content marketer needs all the qualities of a great reporter or fiction maker, combined with a solid marketing strategy.

You must, of course, be able to make your own marketing at best. It could be a very difficult exercise, even for authors who create extraordinary marketing campaigns for their clients.

« Create a bunch of content and hope someone is willing to work with you Will not work for you or your customers today. You need to apply the same strategies and frameworks that you give them to your own business.

However, if it's not really natural for you, then you don't need to worry. This is the case with many authors. This is something that will work well with your learning ability, and the resources by BlogPasCher are here to help you.

N ° 7: Support

One of the hardest things about being a professional writer is that the path you take is a path you take yourself.

There is no one to give you direction, no one to turn a red light on the path, no one to plan your day for you and tell you where you need to be, and when you need to be.

It's also one of the great things about being a professional copywriter. But sometimes the fantastique is also difficult.

Writing is a matter of loneliness, and you may feel that loneliness even more when you don't have a colleague with whom to question and answer or to share your grievances and your victories.

When you find a community of authors, it really is something great. You will meet the smartest, shrewd, and funniest people you will ever know. Besides, it's just good to spend time with people who you include.

(because your friends and family do think you are rather weird)

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After what you have just read, would you say that you are one of those who can make a living from their writing, or that you are not yet one?

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