This is a YouTube video titled "Writing is a Lottery" containing a monologue or talk by a single speaker discussing the unpredictability of creative success in writing and emphasizing the importance of producing a high volume of work to increase chances of resonating with the audience. The content was created in September 2024 and focuses on creative process insights.
Writing is a lottery. So optimize for volume. This is one that took me a really long time to learn, and I think it's true for pretty much every creative industry. You never know what's going to resonate, I promise you. The things that you sit there and obsess over and spend 100 hours refining and thinking, oh, this is my masterpiece and I'm going to put this out into the world. Those are the ones that flop. And I have lived this hundreds of times. The things that I spent so much time on and obsessed over weren't the things that ended up really resonating. And then the things that I just almost threw off the cuff, they ended up catching fire. And I am always surprised, even to this day, I am surprised at how much I don't know what the market wants. And so you have to sort of internalize that and just optimize over shots on goal volume. How can you get as many ideas as possible out into the world and then just let the market take care of it, Let the chips fall where they fall.
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