Where is content quality?

[yogis]

It is filthy world when people aspired to write niche content finds themselves surrounded with crappy, spammed, SE optimized oriented content. I wonder whether the their creativty is stake and so is mine.

But web writers gets to involved in business analysis and strategical upgradation. For a writer living a life of hermit is now a thing of past. So all those who are finding it hard to adjust to their inner craving for writing like Dickens, Steinbeck or whoever u admire - think again. Find your space once u are back from work. Devote 2-3 hours to write what you have dreamt to write. At work it should be business as usual.

Is there any contradiction?

[rogerd]

Yogis, I read a book a while ago that said the reason most would-be writers fail is that they don't write. They THINK about writing, but don't actually do it. The pressures of work, family, etc., all get in the way of quiet reflection and writing. The book suggested devoting as little as 30 minutes a day, without fail, to writing. It makes a lot of sense.

I think each writer has to pick his or her niche, and, if it can be turned into employment, so much the better. Think of painters - an artist who specialized in exquisite miniature portraits would hardly derive much satisfaction from being paid to create giant abstract canvases, or to paint houses. But even those tasks might be better than other pursuits if they paid the bills and gave the artist resources to pursue his craft on his own time.

The reality of our work is that many of us have to be versatile - writing articles, sales copy, headlines, and even optimized text... and perhaps also creating HTML, coding in a few languages, designing graphic elements, etc. But you are right - making the time each day for creative writing is an excellent idea.