Do you know what’s the most important thing about being creative?
Being authentic.
Being yourself and writing in your own voice.
There is no other way.
Years ago, someone tried hard to be me. He even bought my website for writers (Writeaholics.net) and published all my old articles on it.
Naturally, it was a huge failure.
Why?
Because he’s not me. The articles on that website were written in my voice so there was no way he could mimic that in the future. So, he didn’t even try.
And because he wasn’t me, he also couldn’t earn money from that website like I did. For one thing, I had a huge number of subscribers who I kept in touch with every week. But I don’t think he knew that. So, while he was failing to earn money from my old website, I began a new site, carried on making money from it in my usual way, and kept on emailing my subscribers.
There was no way that he could earn money from that website because he wasn’t me, so he couldn’t write like me, and he also wasn’t aware of how I was earning money online. How could he?
No one can work the same way someone else does. It’s impossible.
But if there is someone whose books and work ethic you admire, then there’s nothing wrong with letting what they do spark ideas of your own.
Just so long as they are your ideas, and you stay true to yourself.
And if you want to find out more about the guy who bought my website and tried to be me (he even published my old “about” page with my photos and all my information about myself until I told him to take it down), you can read the article that I wrote about it at the time by clicking the link below.
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