How To Get Eyes On Your Writing When You Have No Audience

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How to get eyes/comments on your writing when you’re starting from zero with no audience:

“I have lots of experience doing interesting things, but nobody is reading/commenting on my writing! What should I do?”

If this is you, then my recommendation is to start out answering people’s questions in your domain of expertise.

It’s possible to have a lot of expertise in a domain but not really know what parts of that expertise are interesting to other people.

If you start out answering other people’s questions, that can help you identify parts of your expertise that other people actually find interesting.

Personally, I spent a year answering questions on Math Educators StackExchange before moving over to X.

Even after I moved over to X, I still spent a lot of time answering questions. I still do.

(If you answer a bunch of questions and you still don’t get any eyes/comments on what you’ve written, then either you haven’t really completed step 1 in this progression, or you need to put more effort into your answers, making them comprehensive and easy to read.)

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