Why would Shakespeare Not be a Good Content Writer Today ?

Well, thankfully the scenario has changed today and I do not have generous friends passing money to me, out of pity. This has its advantages and disadvantages, and after such a long time on the Internet and in content writing, I do not know whether the scenario has changed for the good or bad. Due to the age-old scenario of demand being much less than supply, almost everyone who can frame a proper sentence has dabbled into content writing. Seriously, these people are not the people that are causing the problems. The problems in content writing are caused by the people who have got their said degrees and spent quite some time in the hallowed rooms of literature and English education that cause the problems.

Sadly, these people do not quite understand the meaning of content writing. They also do not understand how to write for the Internet. So, you will get three-line sentences, words that require you to stop all your work and rummage through a dictionary to get the actual meaning of the words, and yes, a language heavy enough to be carried along by two donkeys. Content writing is not a body building show where you flex your literary muscles for everyone else to see. It’s all about having an idea and concept and putting it across using mainstream words. Language is a tool for the same, and some content writers pay more attention to the means than the cause.

Go through this article once more. You will see that I have not used any great ‘high currency’ words. Did I get my point across? Are you convinced about what I am saying in the article, or at least want to sit and debate about it? Then I have made my point, and my grub at the end of the day as a web content writer. And that’s the reason why Shakespeare would not make a good content writer today. Given his language in today’s world, he would quickly carve a niche so small that we would have to invent another word for that small a niche. And that’s not a joke. Check out the history of the ECW sometime. It was a rave success within its fans, but it had to fold up because it could never get mainstream success due to its product – graphic and extreme violence.

And then there are the people who are quite passionate about something and want to write about that – and just that – and nothing else. For example, a few years ago I met a friend of mine who was quite interested and seduced when he saw me sitting on my PC, typing up something in a flurry (I have a 70 WPM with 93% accuracy), and grinning from ear to ear when I heard the (virtual) cha-ching in my paypal. Enthused by the idea, he asked me all about my work and I meekly told him what I do for a living. This guy went ahead with the idea and told me that even he wants to write for the Internet. Now, I generally humor these kinds of ‘me-too’ people, but this guy took the cake. Apparently, he was a ‘Grateful Dead’ fan, and he thought that it was the greatest music group in the whole wide world. Agreed.

He also told me that if he ever put pen to paper, or keyboard to uhmm err.. Hard disk, he would do it only in the glory of the ‘Grateful Dead’. Now, no offence to ‘Grateful Dead’, they have taken me past many dead of the night deadlines, but I was at a loss while telling him that there are no assignments that would want us to write ‘only about Grateful Dead’. Of course, such rabid fans do not give up so easily, and I had to search through the entire freelance writing websites at that time to search for ‘Grateful Dead Writing Assignments’.

And I am still searching.