You Need a Niche, but You Also Need to Find Your Lane as a Writer

Your niche is what you write about; your lane is how you write about it.

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I’m not a confessional writer.

Well, I should say I’m not a confessional writer anymore.

Throughout my grad school years and for a time after, I blogged about my dating and sex life and to a lesser extent, my family life.

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I had a pretty successful blog and the whole nine. I’ve actually been moving a lot of those old posts over to Medium after a site migration gone terribly wrong had me lose 95 percent of my traffic and the income that came with it.

But this article isn’t about that; it’s about figuring out what kind of writer you want to be.

Are you a storyteller?

Are you a data specialist?

Are you a satirist?

So often, we talk about finding your niche as a writer, but we don’t spend enough time talking about finding your lane as a writer.