Your Audience Is Growing, They Tell Me
If that’s true, which it isn’t, why aren’t they reading my stuff?
Most are stalkers, not walkers.
Too obscure? I fooled around with the adage “walk the talk” by supplanting talk with stalk. I’ll leave it up to you to decipher my muddled logic.
I finally got it figured. Not my convoluted adage, but the growing audience thingummy.
In my early days, I watched my follower numbers as if my new life as a writer depended on it. Every century I scored (if you’re a cricket fan you’ll understand) revved up my writing engine to keep batting. I celebrated every email telling me my audience was growing.
As the years passed, I detected the disconnect between followers and readers. Over 3000 followers looked good on paper — and helped me get accepted by News Break for a while until they changed their rules to local content only. But that’s another story.
Here’s my take on audience numbers.
Playing tag
New writers follow me in the hope I’ll follow them back. I never fell for that scam years ago, and never will. They’re wasting their time — and mine.
This reciprocal arrangement only works if they write about stuff that interests me, write…
