To become better at writing, act as if you are the CEO of your writing career and look to grow it. You should work with other writers, ask for help, listen, and make informed decisions.
Becoming the CEO of your writing career empowers you with control. You guide the direction over your artistic journey. As the CEO, you making crucial decisions that determine the trajectory of your success in writing.
As the CEO of your writing career, you manage your writing like a business.
By taking charge, you unlock the potential to shape your legacy as a writer. You embark on a fulfilling path of creativity and achievement. Being the CEO of your writing career is more than taking charge. It’s also about realizing your dreams and making a profound impact with your words.
How to become the CEO of your writing career
Here are five tips to help you become the CEO of your writing career, no matter if writing is your full-time job, a side hustle, or something you do for fun.
1. Take action
A CEO doesn’t take orders from anyone. If you want to grow your writing career, you need to take the initiative. You need to start a blog and write for money.
- What can you do that is above and beyond what are you doing now?
- If you think you can write better, are you taking a writing course and seeking feedback from others on how to improve your writing?
- Are you reading more?
- Are you volunteering to help others with their writing?
2. Be a team player
There’s only so much that you can get done by yourself. You’ll burn out if you take on too much work. If you want to scale your writing and have a bigger impact, you must develop your writing team.
Collaborate with your fellow writers, find a good editor, and trust other people to help you get your writing done. As you start out your writing career, you need to build relationships with others who will build you up and challenge you to think differently.
3. Ask for help
Join a writer’s group “who trade articles with one another for feedback, suggestions, and publication advice” according to Kristina Segarra.
A good writer has confidence to know they don’t have all the answers. They are also humble enough to have an accurate view of their strengths and weaknesses and are open to other viewpoints and ideas. They keep accomplishments and abilities in the proper perspective.
Make learning a priority so you have good resources to reference. Don’t spend too much time spinning your wheels with a writer’s block.
Even when you are the CEO, it’s ok not to have all of the answers.
4. Listen more than you talk
To be a leader in the writing career, it’s important to keep your eyes and ears open. Keep your writing “mouth” closed until you have enough information to make a strong point. A good writer knows when to speak up about a topic and when to listen.
If you are a good writer, you do a lot of research before you write about a topic.
Ask smart questions about a topic and listen before you write about something. It’s important to earn the trust of the writing community. This will help you avoid making mistakes that could have been prevented.
5. Take more risks
Your biggest risk is to not take a risk. Risk is the price of success and shouldn’t be viewed in a negative light.
When you take the right mindset toward risk, you grow and make a bigger impact in your writing career. Do your homework and find data to back up your writing.
Take smart and well-informed risk.
Part of being the CEO of your writing career is to take responsibility for your ideas that don’t pan out. No matter how well prepared you are and how well you make things happen, you may fail and that’s okay.
You learn more from your failures than your successes. Learn from your writing failures and don’t shy away from taking risks with your writing.
Bringing it all together
Take charge of your writing career. You need to grab the reins of the great opportunity to write and make money. Take action, be a team player, ask for help, listen more than you talk, and take more risks.
The best way to learn is through experience writing more articles. Master the writing fundamentals and build them up as you develop your writing style that works for you.
By acting as if you are the CEO of your writing career, you’ll become an advanced and popular writer.
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