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Most People Do Not Stop Making Things. They Just Stop, and Nobody Knows.
The unannounced disappearance is the standard ending, and it costs the person more than it costs the audience. A case for ending things out loud.
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Creators
Making things for an audience that can leave, on a platform that can change the terms.
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I Could See the Numbers, and Within a Year They Were Choosing My Subjects
Not deliberately. The feedback was fast enough and specific enough that my sense of what was interesting quietly reorganised around it.
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The Audience Is Not Yours and Knowing That Changes What You Make
Six years of writing for a group of people who could stop reading at any moment, and the two things that turned out to keep them.