Novel presentation trumps meticulous skill
I was having a conversation with myself as I do frequently without nicotine, as the onset of nicotine silences my mind and I can get a-writing at maximum capacity in what counts as a “sprint” for me. This is something my life partner taught me how he programs, in set chunks called “sprints” to keep all the necessary information in his short term memory while working on something all entangled with itself.
With my writing style, it's hard to graph the path I will specifically take, as I meander and state things out of chronological order. Likewise, I never know where I'm going. Like, I wanted to lead into a talk about why Stephen King writes mostly horror, which would lead to talking about Carl Jung and the self/shadow consciousness, which would then lead to me talking about what has allowed me to change so much; expressing myself led to a processing of trauma-induced unconscious emotions which when censored by my brain resulted in them festering into deeper problems of being.
But now we've wandered in the intro and have greater opportunities than before, because now I have a unique mixture of things to talk about, most notably being how I have learned to let everything out of me freely, and the combinatory process of connecting this idea to that one leads to a novel form of presenting all facets of information to a reader. Most of the time, having developed my empathy skill by broadcasting to a nebulous “they,” I am primarily focused in my efforts on creating a long history of educational material for a random stranger who may or may not understand me, but in creating a whole library of these types of posts, which I've done for twelve years, I am constantly creating a landing space for a sudden intake of attention, and I know how to generate hundreds of thousands of views, if not millions at this point.
Hard to practice or experiment now to test the best way to do things while trying to stay small in order to better serve those people who do get caught in my orbit; if I shoot up to half a million views on a main library, that's it, I've got at least fifteen minutes of fame and the aftermath. Is it sustainable? Will the FBI pick me up again? Am I a cop? I have no idea. I care about education, and in authentically expressing myself, I am showing how that is done and others may take inspiration from this.
My phone's keyboard made a typo there, changing take to tale, and now I feel compelled to talk about how one of the most noticeable impacts on a single person I've had was just a random lad starting college. I replied in a dubious style of presenting information, but offered what general help I could. The Reddit thread took off, hundreds of people replied. Mine was chosen as one of three that impacted him the most. He left a huge comment on a video of a podcast I was on, praising me. It was weird, but I was moved at the same time.
You can impact people by presenting the same information in a special or just novel way. Learn how to speak authentically as yourself, and then those who resonate with your true nature will start reading your words. That's how you develop a following. It's not about being good, or being the best. It's about being real, and if you can do that, it doesn't matter if your writing homework looks like a pizza from all the red marks, you'll have the most moving story or essay or article or what have you.
