Is Your Audience Size Keeping You From Creating?

Think you’re too small to start? Or too big to try new things?

I’ll start with a question most of us don’t ask frequently — have you given your audience size all the power in leading your creativity?

I hear this often. New writers will slide into my DMs and vent about how hard it is to get started. Oftentimes they don’t tell me much more than that — it’s just so hard to get started. I pepper in a few more questions to get to the heart of whether they’re afraid to start writing (or creating or filming etc) or if what they’re afraid of is the process of sharing their work because they don’t think anyone will consume it.

The push-pull between both of those scenarios is hard. It’s every entry level job telling you that they can’t hire you until you have more experience, all the while you’re left wondering how to get the experience if no entry level job will hire you. Those moments can feel like a dead end road and creativity is no different. Instead of a tense moment with a hiring manager, you may find it pops up in a tense relationship with your audience (the one that’s there or the one you have yet to grow).

It’s why it’s important to start asking yourself if you’ve given too much power to your idea of an audience. Whatever your medium, our…