If you ever ask a hundred writers, if they would like to stick to one lane (single niche), you'll likely get either 'yes' or 'no'. But, this article is not about the people who'd like to change niches and explore, but this is about the ones who are lying…
Yes it's you!
You are comfortable in your niche, writing a lot of articles, exploring the best of the worlds, but when you are done with your work, you are cheating with your niche. Now, you are thinking to write about your family, write about your boyfriend, or you know, write about anything in the world but your usual niche.
Like you, for the longest time, I had to believe that sticking to one niche as a writer is the perfect thing to do. But I guess not? To explore a little more about me, you can read, well, About Me!
If you're done reading about me, then you should know that I come from a finance background, who is still writing for her fintech clients. While I was so sure of sticking to this niche, I created my socials and positioned myself as a finance writer. But every time I tried things, you know 'to sell things', 'to sell a course', 'to sell a digital PDF', or just make a damn video, I did not feel the thrill or interest in it.
Look, we writers are too honest sometimes. We like to follow a path where we are the kings and the queens of our own story. But, life isn't a marshmallow.
I was honest to my niche, I liked it, my clients liked it, but there was always something that felt 'missing'.
After failing to make 556 insta accounts, deleting 1212+ posts, and cursing myself for my abilities, I realized something...
I am already using my 'finance' brains for my clients. How am I supposed to be creative again and work on my personal growth when that part of my brain is already being used? I took this as a challenge to explore my interests out of my main work, and wake my curiosity!
Actually, TBH, I did not wake my curiosity up, but my 'curiosity' made me wake up! IDK if it makes sense, but okay! For the longest time, ideas were knocking my brain's door and demanding to be written.
One day I felt like writing a heartfelt Drama review, and another day, I had to share the recipe that I created, and it was a hit (judges were my mom and dad). The next day, something happened, and I wanted to write about it with different POVs. I woke up from a thriller dream, and hell yeah, I wanted to write about that too.
But, you know, they don't like writers like us! "Multi passionate"
They call us 'just too much', 'impulsive', 'can't pick a lane' and what all, I can't remember now. But listen, if you are anything like me, I am building this awesome multi passionate community of writers on Instagram. Let's connect and talk about our various passions!
Getting into a passion and ignoring another passion can be too difficult for us, and not to write about it all? It's too much! I mean, it's a random time, I am just traveling in subway, and I saw something, observed things, thought about it, googled it and presto! A damn-effing good, great idea in seconds! Urghhh, note apps saving the day.
Do you get ideas from your daily-life observations?
Yessss
Girl! tell me about it
And you know what? I love this feeling. The whole process of getting an idea to implementing it, just a chef's kiss 💋 But what's the struggle?
The struggle is to get a lot of ideas, to think about different things, the multi-interests affects our mind in some or the other way as well. So, here are my confessions that, well, you read the heading for:
#1 The struggle of identity as a multipassionate writer
ting-tong - what kind of writer are you?
The question sends me into a spiral. I'm not just a food writer, entertainment writer, finance writer, or motivational writer, I am just a 'writer' who wants to talk about, well, everything?
I know google will be unhappy with this because, hello, SEO! Need to build keywords for the niche. And that's where I struggled for the long to keep my identity. Because I'm all of it and none of it at the same time.
And you know what, that's okay. My identity as a writer cannot be kept into a box of a single 'niche' but you know, it's like a kaleidoscope, always changing and vibrant - full of endless possibilities
Hence, I am a multipassionate writer. Are you too?
#2 The chaos of inspiration
My brain is not a content calendar where the ideas will be all lined up. When you are a multipassionate writer, know that a content calendar is a total waste for you.
I remember the time that I have used AI, brainstormed, observed people, and came up with a content calendar for my blogs. While it was a great idea, but it was not me.
It was just being a writer working to make her 'boss' happy for the ideas. But wait! Here the boss is me, and I did not like my ideas, because the headings just felt blarghh to me. So yes, I fired me (the pretentious content calendar version of me). Toodles.
So, the chaos was real! But now, I do not find ideas, but ideas find me.
So, you know, I decided not to have a content calendar for my articles, because then I'll keep posting using the fresh ideas instead of the stale ones.
#3 The guilt of not doing enough
Sometimes I feel like I am failing because, well, I can't stick to one topic for a long time. I like to explore, 'moving on' is my thing, and finding a new path gives me focus.
But, you cannot feel bad for doing more, can you? I realized, well, technically, I am getting more ideas than a usual writer would get. So why is that a bad thing even?
'I sure am doing enough, and I just have to implement it right', I told myself.
#4 The joy of breaking rules
When you are working, say in a travel niche, you strictly have to stick to the idea of travels, and things related to travel. You possibly cannot integrate your family drama in your travel blog, lol. (your audience would get maaaaaddd)
But guess what? As a multipassionate writer, you can break a handful of rules and enjoy the freedom. Just imagine the freedom, which comes not from your boss, but from your mind, that cannot stop you from pursuing a topic that would 'not' fit in your blog.
Hence, the blog - yellow paper dreams - a collection of my multipassions - ideas - thoughts. My blog name is inspired from the things once I scribbled on papers that were crushed later and by now they are yellow. You know the ones!. They get shoved into a drawer with the promise of "I'll get back to this", but somehow, they just sit there, gathering dust.
#5 The power of multipassionate stories
It's 2025 and we need to celebrate the voices of versatility.
I feel there's a magic that you can do as a writer to connect the dots from a K-drama to a dream, food recipes to culture, self-improvement to talking about a robot?
Maybe, I can talk about 'my skincare' too, I mean my experience would be different than you, right?
So, here's to multipassionate us, and our multipassionate stories 🥂
Join our vibrant community of multi-passionate dreamers and creators.
Bottom Line
So here's the truth: being a multi-passionate writer isn't about fitting into a box - it's about embracing the kaleidoscope of who you are. My blog, Yellow Paper Dreams, is where those forgotten ideas find their voice.
Are you ready to share yours?
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