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"They subscribe to your consciousness. So many “experts” will tell you to write for your reader. I think that’s BS. I write for me. And when people enjoy it, it’s a rewarding bonus. I love connecting with my readers, but I am not altering my words for them. I am not writing the things that I think will go viral or resonate with the mainstream.”

-som

“Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.” - Cyril Connolly

If you write to please others, you are selling out. You are in the process of audience capture. This way of talking, which is how the fear in me talks, is common—as if writing for an audience and writing for yourself are at odds with each other. I really used to feel like that.

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Henrik Karlsson • Writing as Communion

"The answer is, that the book is for me. I wrote it for me. I wrote Psychology of Money for me. I wrote all my blog posts for me. I call it selfish writing. An audience of one."

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