Divorce is Apparently My Niche
Write what you know, right?
I’ve been through some things. For years, I figured those things were my personal journey to navigate — my cross to bear, if you will. I was so wrapped up in the three-foot radius around my own body that it never occurred to me that my experiences might benefit others.
I mean, who wants to listen to your failures when they have their own ish to deal with, right? Turns out, a lot of people actually do.
I wrote a piece called “Your Second (or third, or fourth) Marriage Will Also Fail” in February that I just needed to get off my chest. I wasn’t in a particularly bad place at that time, but for some reason this was weighing on me. So I banged it out, self-published it, and forgot all about it. And of course, no one read it.
Until April.
Out of nowhere, my phone started blowing up with notification after notification that people were clapping for, highlighting, and adding this story to their personal lists. Within like two weeks, my number of followers more than doubled.
This piece actually made some real money. Not “F-U” money, mind you, but enough to encourage me to write some more.
So, as you can see above, I wrote some other things, thinking I was about to blow the EFF up. No dice.
Until May, when I wrote a more personal story about the subject of divorce. It was nowhere near as successful as the first one, but still hit more than 500 views. Oh. And $44.51 in royalties.
Last month, another website asked if they could republish that one. I figured, “What the hell?” After doing so, they offered to actually pay me to produce original content for them on the subject of relationships.
I’ve been writing for years, just spitting out whatever comes to mind. I’ve done articles on sports, faith, life lessons, and even one chronicling a breakfast I had with WWE Hall of Famer Nikolai Volkoff. None of it really ever caught on.
But divorce did.
People are hurting. People are searching. People are desperate to make sense of the mistakes and tragedies in their own lives, and I accidentally stumbled into that realm just because I was having a bad head-space day and aired it out.
It seems I am now Divorce Guy when it comes to writing.
