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Put Some Love Into It · The Daily Writer

• 0:07
  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to the Daily Writer, where we share a lesson each day to help you cultivate the habits for creative success.
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  SPEAKER_00: These lessons are inspired by great artists, authors, and thinkers, both past and present.
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  SPEAKER_00: For more, you can visit us at dailywriterlife.com.
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  SPEAKER_00: If your writing was a cake, what would the ingredients be?
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  SPEAKER_00: You'd certainly include structure, you'd think about the audience.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you were writing research, you would include some data or case studies.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you're writing fiction, you would make sure to include plot and characters.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if you want your work to be read, you must also think about publishing and marketing.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's lots of ingredients to think about in successful writing.
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  SPEAKER_00: However, there's one ingredient of great writing that rarely gets talked about, and that is love.
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  SPEAKER_00: Love?
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  SPEAKER_00: Seriously?
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  SPEAKER_00: What about marketing?
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  SPEAKER_00: What about building a platform?
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  SPEAKER_00: What about monetization, big time publishers, sales numbers or downloads?
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, those can all be important factors, and of course we'd all like to have a big audience or a platform.
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  SPEAKER_00: However, you can't have any of those things unless you first bake a great cake.
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  SPEAKER_00: Remember how your grandma would bake a cake?
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  SPEAKER_00: She'd probably use the standard ingredients, but there was also that extra something special she'd put into it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Grandma would put just a little bit of love into that cake, and it made all the difference.
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  SPEAKER_00: So back to the analogy.
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  SPEAKER_00: If writing is a cake, how do we put love into it?
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, the answer is simple.
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  SPEAKER_00: We care about our readers and we want to create something special for them.
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  SPEAKER_00: It doesn't matter what the genre is, it doesn't matter if you're writing fiction, articles, blog posts, podcasts, speeches, or business books, we should always put a little bit of love into everything that we do.
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  SPEAKER_00: One of the world's foremost authorities on love, Mother Teresa, once said, it's not how much we give, but how much love we put into giving.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's a great goal to build an audience or to make tons of sales, but on the other side of those sales are individual people who are looking for a great story to read or they're looking for a solution to their problem.
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  SPEAKER_00: We might be able to construct a great plot or impress people with our beautiful sentences, but if we don't put some love into it and want the very best for our readers, it just won't mean much.
• 2:29
  SPEAKER_00: Hey, thanks so much for listening to this episode of the Daily Writer Podcast.
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  SPEAKER_00: We appreciate your support and hope you enjoyed this episode.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can find more at dailywriterlife.com.