Two Unwanted Results of Finding a Writing Niche Too Early

It’s like declaring your major before you start college.

1. It’s Intensely Personal

If you decide to have a niche when you are just starting out before you have much of a following or portfolio, you really don’t have the “street creds” to concentrate on one particular niche unless it is something personal that you have been through in your own life. Such as,

“How I caught Dengue Fever collecting stamps from Ohio.”

And let’s say you lingered on the verge of death for a week and a half and had to then go through the rigorous philatelist program at the Mayo Clinic in Hoboken.

OK. That is now your niche. You OWN IT.

No one could outsell you in your niche.

2. You’re the Pro from Dover

This is the second possible perception you could have from readers when you go for an early niche, if you are a little short in the tooth, journalistically speaking.

You just got your doctorate in the subject, and you already run the philatelist clinic in Hoboken with 50 researchers and 75 administrators under your control, and since your doctorate thesis, this is the first thing you have penned.

In conclusion, the shotgun approach

Writing about several different subjects will not only give you valuable practice, but it will also give you the humble appearance you need.

In fact, let your niche be humility in the beginning.

Don’t tell ANYBODY what to do about ANYTHING. Just explain what you did about that subject, and the results you received.

I just mean that’s how it worked for me…