A wonderful exchange

We write to think; both in private, in the sanctity of whatever app we choose, alone with our thoughts, and in public when our words reach total strangers who can mirror them back to us and help us see things we’ve missed.

That’s quite a wonderful exchange.

— “Nobody Wants Your Newsletter. You Should Write it Anyway.”

I’ve always felt that writing is about connection. I’ve never really cared about metrics because reaching even one person is already a lot. And while you can't have a writing career with only one reader, you do have to start somewhere.