I Hope You Stick Around
My only niche is being me.
I know one of the biggest keys to successfully building a social media presence — and, subsequently, a reader base — is to have a niche. I know this because every article on the web about growing your audience says so. I know this because every successful social media guru does it. Mostly, I know it because even I am more likely to follow a social media account if I know it will consistently put content on a specific subject I care about into my feed.
Yet.
I simply cannot bring myself to do it — to commit to confining myself within a niche. I cannot even confine myself to a single writing style!
As I wrote back in February 2019:
“I am not only a mom — not only a boy mom, not only a girl mom, not only a twin mom, not only a mom via IVF/FET, not only a mom thanks to gestational surrogacy. I am not only a cancer survivor. I am not only struggling with anxiety disorders and advocating for mental health awareness. I am not only a budget traveler. Not only a family historian. Not only striving to live an intentionally simple, ordinary life. I am not only a writer — not only a poet, not only an essayist, not only an aspiring novelist.
You get all of me.
I may be doing it wrong by not trimming away all the extra…
