5 Ways to Become a Writer Influencer

You don’t become an influencer by chance anymore. It has become a part of everyone’s job to be an influencer for marketing anything that you do, so that it reaches the world and gets appreciated. For a writer, becoming an influencer on social media is extra-beneficial because to be an influencer, you need to know writing, and if you are an influencer, you can build a brand as a writer. Especially, if you publish and print your own book, marketing is an essential part of your journey, and being a social influencer will make your work trend and top the charts of all book ratings.

So here are 5 Ways for you to become a Writer Influencer–

1. Start with Blogging– If you want to test your writing skills you can first start a blog post of your own. Share your plot, your character sketches and whatever comes to your mind, whatever you find relevant to discuss. This is just to push you into the habit of writing regularly. Then blogs can get you readers. When you circulate your concept over the internet, you have more people who know about you. In the current digital world, you can use your blog site to build a brand, create awareness and promote your book later on. Keep comment section, so that people can drop in their feedback and suggestions. This keeps you connected to your audience. These followers can become your future readers who can buy your books.
2. Keep Journaling– You may just write regularly in different forums and platforms, because you love writing. Share your thoughts and opinions with others; speak about current affairs. What this means is you don’t just write on your books, but also on other things happening around you. This way, people get to know you as a person and start believing in you; they know you care about the society, and about others; it makes you more authentic.
3. Be Active on Social Media– just like writing regularly on different subjects is important, using social media handles is important too, because influential content floats on these platforms. Tweet about relevant issues, or comment on posts of other renowned authors. Don’t forget to tag them, so that they can see you, as well as their followers get connected to you. Presence on social media is a must in the current scenario of digital marketing, especially if you want to publish and print your own book, you need to create digital footprint with your content.
4. Participate in Writing Contests– There are several websites and writing forums that conduct story writing challenges and competitions. It is not about the prize money, but about the opportunities that these contests provide to new budding writers. Not only people get to read your writing, but you also get to work with peers who are aspiring writers like yourself, and you can compare and contrast your work to them, and improve on specific areas. But most importantly, you create your presence in the digital publishing world, when you publish something online.
5. Write on Answering Platforms Like Quora and Reddit– These are great places to network with interested people. Just keep answering their questions objectively. This not only helps develop your writing skills, but meet new people on who’s posts you comment. You get to share your opinion with them, and influence their thoughts and decisions with your answers. When you publish and print your own book, these followers and network, become potential readers and reviewers of your book. They read your book because they like you, they comply with your thoughts already.

Writing is a challenging career option, but it becomes much simpler, when you use the same skill to influence and inspire people.

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