Comments on: Do You Have to Believe It to Write It?

By: Translator Jobs

Translator Jobs — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 07:34:18 +0000

don’t be negative look at the brightside.. you can say its boring but its your job, if you thinks it is really that way maybe you should look for another… you wont succeed if its the way you think about it..

By: Christa M. Miller

Christa M. Miller — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 17:19:23 +0000

I really think it depends on the writer. Some seem better able to grin and bear it than, say, I am. I chose my niche because I’m passionate about it, and within that niche there are things I’m less passionate about, but I believe in the ultimate goal I had when choosing my niche (”help cops do their jobs”).

I fell into the body armor thing and I really get into the technical details, though some of the sales-speak makes me roll my eyes. With digital forensics, I had the good luck to find passionate investigators who stoked my interest in a subject I didn’t know much about. And continue to do so.

I also do PR copy for an architectural firm, and what I like about that work is, again, the passion that the architects bring to their jobs – the great ideas they come up with and being part of bringing them to other people. But I don’t think I could write very much about, say, green building practices. I’m not passionate about it, I don’t feel “called” to do it, and I’d rather put my energy where I am passionate and do feel I can do the most good.

By: Susan Payton, The Marketing Eggspert

Susan Payton, The Marketing Eggspert — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 13:20:43 +0000

Ladies–
If I got paid extra for every boring project we worked on I would be RICH!! Every topic deserves to be written about with good copy. I do a lot of boring press releases on laser marking equipment. You have to remember it’s interesting to someone, just not you!

By: Brian Killian

Brian Killian — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 12:31:27 +0000

It’s easier to create conviction in your readers when you are convinced yourself. If you’re passionate about something that will show through in your writing.

You don’t need this passion to write effectively about various things that might not be your particular interests though.

Absolutely speaking though, you do have need to find some common ground with the subject your writing about in order to write decent marketing material.

Maybe you’re writing about a product that you would never buy yourself, but unless you can understand and sympathize with the appeal it has for those who do buy it, you will not write well, marketing wise.

By: Allena

Allena — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 03:14:22 +0000

Oh good lord, would you two just start pitching magazine articles already? I pitch things I’m interested in, things that are my passion, and never spend too much time on stuffing keywords or silly ebooks. (Although I am doing an ebook, but it’s in one of my niche subject areas). Come on. Your talents are wasted on this bric a brac.

By: Tamara Berry

Tamara Berry — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 02:38:13 +0000

Steve – Good point: Believing that good work awaits is yet another step in getting past the drudgery.

Genesis – I agree that the topic is a controversial one; and it’s one that I waver on depending on my current fiscal status. If I’m sitting in the midst of a good month, I am much, much more picky about what I’ll do than when I’m looking for any cash I can find.

I think my end goal is to move so much closer to every month being a good month that I never have to worry about taking on work that doesn’t make me feel 100 percent happy with my job.

By: Genesis

Genesis — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 01:49:24 +0000

This is a pretty controversial subject, I think. Personally, I`ll write about anything as long as it pays well. To some, that sounds just awful, like selling myself out, but really, just because it`s not my ideal project doesn`t mean my kids should go without milk and diapers!

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 21:39:29 +0000

I guess it would help you to produce better results if you believed in what you were writing about and were interested in it. Whilst I'm not a freelance writer I do plenty of freelance software development and I get the same problem: many pieces of work are either boring or they are to fix a horrible mess of badly written code. Either way, I have to grin and bear it and hope some other cool work is just over the horizon. Steves last blog post..Town crier deafened by own bell after 25 years