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The Only Thing You Have 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
  SPEAKER_00: For more resources, including your free Daily Rider Starter kit, visit DailyRiderLife.com.
• 0:22
  SPEAKER_00: You know, 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.
• 0:32
  SPEAKER_00: When you look at the millions of books, blogs, podcasts, and magazine articles that have been written, what could you possibly have to say that's unique among all that noise and all those billions of words that have been created?
• 0:45
  SPEAKER_00: Well, the answer is really simple.
• 0:47
  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.
• 0:54
  SPEAKER_00: You are the unique factor in that equation.
• 0:57
  SPEAKER_00: Now, the word unique means one of a kind, and there's only one of you in the whole wide world.
• 1:03
  SPEAKER_00: Your unique combination of skills, experience, and viewpoint is what makes your writing worth reading.
• 1:10
  SPEAKER_00: You might be writing about the same things as thousands of other people, but they're not saying it in the way that you say it.
• 1:16
  SPEAKER_00: They don't see things from your perspective or your point of view.
• 1:20
  SPEAKER_00: So, how should this inform our writing?
• 1:23
  SPEAKER_00: Well, the novelist Barbara King Solver has the answer.
• 1:27
  SPEAKER_00: She once said, Close the door.
• 1:29
  SPEAKER_00: Write with no one looking over your shoulder.
• 1:32
  SPEAKER_00: Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you.
• 1:35
  SPEAKER_00: Figure out what you have to say.
• 1:37
  SPEAKER_00: It's the one and only thing you have to offer.
• 1:41
  SPEAKER_00: Well, as it turns out, the only thing you have to offer is also the best thing you have to offer.
• 1:46
  SPEAKER_00: There will only ever be one of you in the world.
• 1:49
  SPEAKER_00: There's only one person who can speak with your voice.
• 1:52
  SPEAKER_00: Don't waste the opportunity to let us hear it.
• 1:55
  SPEAKER_00: Hey, thanks so much for listening to today's episode.
• 1:58
  SPEAKER_00: I hope you enjoyed this.
• 1:59
  SPEAKER_00: For more, you can visit us at dailywriterlife.com.
• 2:03
  SPEAKER_00: Thanks so much, and I'll see you tomorrow.