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Understand These 5 Things About Readers to Avoid Writing Failure
Let’s call a spade a spade — most writers are abject failures. Just god awfully poor results. It doesn’t have to be this way either.
Seriously, if you can embrace this single concept, fully, you stand a chance at building an audience that loves your work. If you don’t embrace this concept, you will fail.
Simple. In order to build an audience and have a successful career, other people not named you have to like your writing.
Start with these five core traits of any audience anywhere, and you’ll be well on your way to having a successful writing career.
Take Off Your Rose-Colored Glasses
You have to understand that your potential reader’s default position is to not want to read your stuff.
First of all, they don’t know you. The less social proof you have, which is zero when you’re new, the harder it is to gain attention.
Second, even for people who like to read, reading isn’t a high priority compared to all the other things they could be doing.
Last, even if they decide they’re really in the mood to read, they can choose from an infinite number of writers.
