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New Writers Tips.
Find Your Niche & Use It When Your Income Drops.
I like to write about psychology, but narcissism is the niche.
Writing on medium was a way for me to process having two children to a person with narcissistic traits while I was going through family court to protect my children.
Little did I know at the time that narcissists and toxic relationships was all the rage.
Turning lemons into lemonade, I kept up the writing, but as I healed I became interested in writing about other things like parenting and new discoveries in research, or short-fiction and naturopathy. The readers still wanted to hear about narcissists.
I guess it’s like being a great garden gnome maker and everybody is buying your garden gnomes, but deep down you want to make giant fairies and insects, so you give that a go, you lose customers, and realize you’ve got to go back to garden gnomes. Fairies and insects will have their time.