I remember my first follower. I was so excited!
The validation! I’ll always be grateful to him.
I don’t find him in my list of followers so he’s no longer around.
And I remember the first time I got a compliment that justified and solidified the way I write. He called my voice rare and original. Thank you, Moshe Forman
For months I would regularly check in on those initial followers. Read their posts. Then came more followers. I reciprocated. Was given the tip to check the followers of someone I followed. Follow some of those and see if they would follow me in turn.
No simple way of putting it!
Slowly, the whole thing got out of hand. Writers I followed started writing stuff I didn’t enjoy. Subject matter, language and more. No longer my cup of tea, so to speak. I stopped reading their work.
But I did not unfollow them. Being unfollowed hurts. And it’s no big effort on my part to simply ignore their posts.
I remember a tip from Tom Kuegler.
“Go back from time to…
