A weird writing challenge is that my audience is aging much more slowly than I am. When I started ribbonfarm in 2007, I was 33, and I think my average reader was around 30. Now I'm 45 but my average reader is still only about 35. So it's become harder to write across that gap.
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It's not a mystery that this will happen... you are living at time = now as an author, but your archives leave in your life-stage time at the time of writing, so kinda makes sense that my 2008 posts might still have some interest for today's 34 year olds
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doesn't help that I still look much younger than I am, though that's changing
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Oh yeah... I feel like a lack of audience-author frame of reference-matching can be one of most difficult things to navigate.
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Most of my professional writing has been geared toward financial topics; even just trying to broaden from e.g. readers with interests in mortgage bonds to readers with interests in government bonds, muni bonds and auto loan bonds too can be a real trip on a word choice level...
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if it's worth it we will bridge the gap. I was 10 years old when The Office came out, had never seen a single ep, then watched the first season just so I could better internalise Gervais Principle
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