Building an audience, a following. It’s a contentious discipline—for the wrong reasons, it’s nothing more than aggregating and monetising. The internet is overflowing with this. And the right reasons? Equally debatable, because scaling can look like profiteering, too. But in this case, I’m saying it’s not. That’s in my case—a different sober—212 posts, close to 60,000 words, maybe 150 hours of recall, thinking, and tapping. At no cost to anyone but me—well, your reading time, too.
Find ten people who trust you, respect you, like you, and listen to you. Here’s your start. It’s not compulsory, but it helps if they have a need for what you’re offering—plainly, they want what you’re selling. If they like what you’re doing, it’s a win for you and them. Remember, it’s a more important win for them, because they’ll find ten more, then a hundred, a thousand, perhaps.
I’m not asking for anything here, but 60,000 words is close to a book’s first draft. It’s exciting. I was lucky to talk with a wordsmith yesterday. She told me how her father had written a book—how relatively insignificant he was, in a nice way. What did it for me, though, was seeing and hearing the joy she shared, born of self-publishing and actually receiving the first 100 books. “We should have ordered more—we would have sold them!”
The point here is incremental gains. Small steps, bigger ones, and finally the jump.
I’m closer now to finishing a book than I was in April. I will need your help—I hope it can be a win for everyone. More on this soon.
As always, thank you for being here.
Nick
