Is Your Writing New And Absolutely True?

Darrin Atkins
2 min readNov 11, 2024

Or are you following the crowd of content creators wherever they go?

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Recently, I read an article on a major news website. It was okay.

But then I realized something.

The story I read was similar to a report I read a few hours earlier on a different media webpage.

No wonder it seemed so similar. “Maybe both publications are owned by the same company," I thought. Sure, okay. But that doesn’t make much sense if they are sharing their work.

Then, okay, maybe they both got the content from somewhere else and they separately obtained the rights to use it. This happens sometimes, of course. Nothing wrong with that.

But then, actually, there is something wrong. I don’t like the feeling I got. Frankly, I hope for original content wherever I do online.

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Originality, for me, is the most important thing on the planet for those who create content and make money writing stories and articles for readers. Seriously, I can’t think of anything else that is more important for our survival.

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Darrin Atkins
Darrin Atkins

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