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You Only Have One Thing to Offer · The Daily Writer

• 0:06
  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to the Daily Rider Podcast, where we bring you tips and inspiration each day to help you build habits for writing success.
• 0:14
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• 0:22
  SPEAKER_00: A lot of would-be writers don't get started because they wonder if they have anything truly unique to offer.
• 0:29
  SPEAKER_00: As they say, there's nothing new under the sun.
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  SPEAKER_00: When you look at the millions of books and blogs and podcasts and magazine articles that have been created, what could you possibly say that's unique?
• 0:40
  SPEAKER_00: Well, the answer is actually pretty simple.
• 0:42
  SPEAKER_00: What makes your writing unique is not that you're writing about something new, it's the fact that it's you who is writing it.
• 0:49
  SPEAKER_00: You are the unique factor in the equation.
• 0:52
  SPEAKER_00: The word unique literally means one of a kind, and the fact that you are unique means there's only one of you in the world.
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  SPEAKER_00: Your unique combination of skills, experience, and perspective is what makes your writing worth reading.
• 1:07
  SPEAKER_00: You might be writing about the same things as a hundred other people, but they're not saying it the way that you can say it.
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  SPEAKER_00: So how does this inform your day-to-day writing?
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, the novelist Barbara King Solver has the answer.
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  SPEAKER_00: She said this.
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  SPEAKER_00: Close the door.
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  SPEAKER_00: Write with no one looking over your shoulder.
• 1:25
  SPEAKER_00: Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you.
• 1:28
  SPEAKER_00: Figure out what you have to say.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's the one and only thing you have to offer.
• 1:34
  SPEAKER_00: That is fantastic advice.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because as it turns out, the only thing that you have to offer is also the best thing that you have to offer.
• 1:41
  SPEAKER_00: There will only ever be one of you in the world.
• 1:44
  SPEAKER_00: There's only one person who can speak with your voice.
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  SPEAKER_00: So don't waste the opportunity to let us hear it.
• 1:51
  SPEAKER_00: Here is today's challenge.
• 1:53
  SPEAKER_00: Ask yourself if you're holding back because you mistakenly believe that you don't have anything unique to share.
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  SPEAKER_00: Be honest with yourself.
• 2:01
  SPEAKER_00: Thanks for listening, and I'll see you next time.