Fire Tips: How to Successfully Change Your Niche

Feel like your writing or career is ready to explore a new space? Here are 4 ways to pull off a pivot.

Writers, creatives, and entrepreneurs are repeatedly told to find their niche—a specific topic or genre that they care deeply about and can become experts in and/or build their businesses around. In many ways, this process is identical to finding your passion, which I’ve covered in Fire Tips before:

Fire Tips: How to Find Your Passion

However, changing your niche is a different undertaking.

‘Tis the season of thinking about what’s next. In 2025, what do you hope your life and career might look like? What new lanes or opportunities seem exciting to pursue? Is your current calling as purposeful as it’s always been?

These are questions I’m asking myself and you may likely be pondering, too. If your answers look and sound a lot different than what you’re doing now, it’s likely you’re headed for a pivot. Here’s how to change your niche and embark on something new.