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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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One reason it is hard is I hate didactic writing, or even just explaining my references. When you're writing for your own age milieu, you can get away with, for eg. dropping a currently popular TV show ref and everybody gets it. When you're writing for 12y younger, not so much
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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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