On “Finding” Your Niche.

Some things you cannot plan, you just do.

According to this, my article about dick pics will get curated. Photo by M. B. M. on Unsplash

We see this advice all the time. And it’s good advice, sort of.

Find your niche!

This is usually followed by some kind of journaling or brainstorming exercise.

Throw those directly into the garbage.

Just start writing. A lot.

You do not have to publish everything you write…just start writing.

You will begin to find your topics…because they’re the ones you will keep writing about.

I didn’t plan to write about my PTSD — how it impacts my sex life, my career, my hobbies, my hopes, my fears.

That was just the topic I kept coming back to, because it was on my mind.

Well, in my mind.

I didn’t plan to become a top writer in Humor, either. I just started writing, and many of my stories are comical short stories. Apparently, other people laughed.

Do not prescribe niches to yourself. Find them by doing.

I tried to be a journalist-style writer at first (like, a decade ago). I really did.