Reverie
2 min readNov 23, 2021

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I am looking through your most recent articles and one thing I'm noticing is that you haven't really stuck to a particular topic or theme recently.

There are articles on recent news, coffee, recipes, dogs, emojis and true crime, along with business stuff.

Some articles seem to have been written just for the sake of having content rather than having something fresh or important to say (like the emoji one and the coffee ones).

I don't think it's that you have to keep writing about your trauma to retain your audience and keep pulling in views, I think it's more that you should figure out what topics you have a lot to say on that is unique, and write about that rather than generate the less "you" articles that seem less authentic. Your articles on feminism and mental health in general seem to do really well. I know those articles are the reason I followed you. I know those are also topics you care passionately about.

But I'm going to be honest and say I'm not interested in reading about why coffee is good for me from you, or what emojis say about me, because those articles come across as very generic and I feel like I've seen a million of them in newspaper "Daily Life" sections and Buzzfeed. I'm also not going to read an article that seems to be reworded from a news article I saw elsewhere on the internet. If it's more personal commentary on the news story I will be more interested because I follow you for your unique voice and takes on things.

I hope you won't be offended by my feedback, of course you can keep writing whatever you want, but I thought I'd let you know that the reason I personally read your articles is for your unique voice not your trauma. And those articles seem to be the most successful ones too! So you don't have to keep rehashing something awful that happened to you if that's bad for your mental health, just to keep the money coming in. I think you just need to focus on what your passions really are, and write about that, and not water it down with things that aren't really interesting to you.

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Reverie
Reverie

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