We Were All Wrong: Writing Is About the Author, Not The Reader
Especially successful writing.
The more we live and learn, the more we realize we know nothing about anything. The same goes for writing.
Just when we think we know it well enough to be good at it, we realize we’re nothing but children playing in the sand pit of dismembered words and empty vowels.
I’m sure you’ve heard the phrase ‘if you want to be a successful writer, make it about your reader’. I’ve said it so many times myself.
I even have an e-book that has it as one of its pillars of successful writing: make it about your reader. Why else would they read you if you write only about you? The readers are there for themselves, not for you, you self-serving narcissist.
Yeah, I have a lot of strong arguments about why you should write for the reader and they’re all so logical. Almost soundproof.
But then again, just because something is logical doesn’t mean it’s true.
But there’s also a second layer to it: just because it’s true it doesn’t mean its opposite is not just as true.
