I confess that I do regularly look at my site statistics to see how many views my posts get, but it doesn’t matter so much to me that I have 860-some followers instead of 8,600. I appreciate that you, the reader, are taking time to look at what I post. And I do check my notifications to see who the latest person to follow my blog is, or who liked that last post. That’s how I began following a large number of the blogs I follow—by seeing who liked that last post, following the link, and reading a few posts.

So thanks!

I see a lot of writers are very concerned with the number of followers they have. I don’t want “followers” I want readers. If you read my work I am forever grateful to you for taking the time, that is the most precious thing to me. And I want writers who write — not for […]

via so you want to be a writer — Allison Marie Conway

(14 March 2018)