Man does nothing make less sense than the “but why do we need to earn [conservatives’] trust?” discussions. Maybe because the public doesn’t sort neatly into ideological monoliths, and also because we’re all certainly willing to spend conservatives’ tax and tuition dollars?
erhaps many writers make the same mistake: before they begin, they look for an audience that already exists.
But an audience is not always sitting somewhere waiting to be discovered. One person keeps asking a certain kind of question; other people gradually realize that the same questions matter to them. The relationship forms from there.
What is interesting about going from three readers to 2,600 may not be the growth itself, but what it demonstrates: you don’t necessarily need to know where your readers are before you have a reason to start writing.
Not me just going through and bookmarking every single post you link. Thank you for the roundups!
Man does nothing make less sense than the “but why do we need to earn [conservatives’] trust?” discussions. Maybe because the public doesn’t sort neatly into ideological monoliths, and also because we’re all certainly willing to spend conservatives’ tax and tuition dollars?
erhaps many writers make the same mistake: before they begin, they look for an audience that already exists.
But an audience is not always sitting somewhere waiting to be discovered. One person keeps asking a certain kind of question; other people gradually realize that the same questions matter to them. The relationship forms from there.
What is interesting about going from three readers to 2,600 may not be the growth itself, but what it demonstrates: you don’t necessarily need to know where your readers are before you have a reason to start writing.