Thoughts on Maria Popova’s podcast

Maria Popovas’s podcast talk about many ways to start a successful blog. The point I found most powerful was, writing for yourself. First, in her podcast she expressed how important it is to write for yourself rather than writing for other people. Then Maria stated, “The second you begin to write to or for a so called audience you’ve lost the long game.” I interpreted this as saying the only way you will truly be happy, and inspire others with your own writing is if you write to please yourself and not others. When people read something you’ve written often times they feel, inspired, the same, or just understand where you are coming from. When people look to your story that could relate to their own it often gives them hope, or looking forward to the future instead of how bad things were in the past. If you are writing to try to relate to someone often the real mutual feeling fades. Personally when I have written things in the past for teachers and heavily relied on their opinion when I wrote. If I knew the teacher disagreed I might have written an essay surrounding their opinion rather than my own. My writing would tend to not sound as convincing because it was not my true belief. However when I write about my true opinion I carry on my opinion of the topic.   This is the reason I agree with Maria that it is important to write for yourself and contribute your true feelings rather than writing what you think others want to hear.