Seeking Water In The Desert

How Life Can Throw A Curve Ball

Dominus Owen Markham
2 min readSep 16, 2024

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Photo by Jason Leung on Unsplash

Writing and creating content for a living is for sure one of life's rich tapestries of peaks and troughs.

People are fickle, one minute they want you, then they don't (both as a content creator and as a human anyways lol).

Content creation, more specifically writing, for me, is, in my opinion, an art, though people are not seeing that anymore. We are using our knowledge and experience to produce, based on a client's needs, the best “Voice” for their business.

Promoting a business takes time, research and experience to come up with the goods, but the client only sees the short-term results. Once they hit enough “gold” they often drop you because “it will be fine now”…and then, months later they may poke their heads over the trench and say “Ah…could you do that gig again…bottoms dropped out of our gig”.

Now, even more so than in previous decades, we face a “seeking water in the desert” scenario. There is a lot against “us” (and by that I mean suppliers and clients”. AI is diluting online information and marketing and whilst I can see its uses, at this point at least, it does NOT have real-life experience.

However, the one thing people, clients let’s say, do not “get” is that consistency is key…dropping on and off the…

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Dominus Owen Markham
Dominus Owen Markham

Written by Dominus Owen Markham

Scribbler, Content Creator, Newsletter Editor - Carpe Diem - https://page.fo/dominusmarkham

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