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WHAT SHOULD YOU WRITE ABOUT?

When you decide to write a book, you’re faced with important decisions:

• Which genre should you choose? Which subgenre?
• What topic should you write about within that subgenre?
• What features will your story have?

But there are other important considerations that go along with these, which are often overlooked:

• Is there an audience for what I really want to write about?
• Could I attract more readers by writing about something slightly different?
• What are my marketing assets?

You’re not the only person who will read your book, right? At least you hope not!

So if you only write what you want to read, doesn’t that seem somewhat selfish?

You’re a reader, too, of course, which may help you, as a writer, develop a style and feel for how to write.

The challenge is to find the right balance.

CONSIDERATIONS FOR GENRE &…