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You're Never "Just" a Writer · 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
  SPEAKER_00: For more resources, including your free Daily Writer Starter Kit, visit DailyWriterLife.com.
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  SPEAKER_00: When you walk into a library or a bookstore, even if it's an online bookstore, you'll notice that books are categorized into genres.
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  SPEAKER_00: Some of the popular genres that you see include biography, children's books, adult fiction, self-help, spirituality, and history, among lots and lots of others.
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  SPEAKER_00: No matter what type of books you write, your work always belongs in the history category.
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  SPEAKER_00: Not necessarily because you're writing literal history, although you might be, but it's because you're making history.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, what do I mean by this idea that you're making history?
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  SPEAKER_00: What I mean is that you have immense power to determine how people think, how people feel, and how people act.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you write fiction, your stories can move people to fear, anger, tears, or joy.
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  SPEAKER_00: And those emotions can change how people feel about themselves, how they think about their family and friends, and how they view their place in the world.
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  SPEAKER_00: Those feelings can lead to concrete action.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, what about nonfiction?
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  SPEAKER_00: If you write nonfiction, your words and content can educate, inform, inspire, or motivate people.
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  SPEAKER_00: The whole purpose of nonfiction is to help people make some kind of change in their lives.
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  SPEAKER_00: And maybe that change is learning more about the past or learning how to cook or how to break an addiction or how to heal their marriage.
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  SPEAKER_00: You're making history with your words because you're changing people.
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  SPEAKER_00: And quite literally, whenever you write and somebody reads those words, it changes them and it can move them to action.
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  SPEAKER_00: It literally changes the history for that person's life.
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  SPEAKER_00: Whenever we writers talk about what we do, we often put the modifier just in front of our title.
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  SPEAKER_00: And sometimes whenever we talk about what we do to somebody who's not involved in writing, we'll talk about the fact that, well, I'm just a writer, or I'm just an author, or I'm just a podcaster, or I'm just a blogger.
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  SPEAKER_00: We'll talk about ourselves in kind of a passive, dismissive way.
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  SPEAKER_00: Winston Churchill once said, History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it.
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  SPEAKER_00: My goodness, I love, love, love that sentiment.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's the idea that you're not just a passive observer of history.
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  SPEAKER_00: You're not just sitting on the sidelines.
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  SPEAKER_00: You are making history because you are the one that's going to create it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we can take that a step further.
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  SPEAKER_00: We can say, you're never just a writer.
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  SPEAKER_00: You are in fact the most powerful type of person.
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  SPEAKER_00: Not necessarily somebody who's always writing about history, but as a person who is always making it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Here's today's question As a writer, do you feel like you're making history?
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  SPEAKER_00: Why or why not?
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  SPEAKER_00: Thanks for listening, and I'll see you tomorrow.