should you write for an "audience"?

and other tales of being mad online

I don’t know if it’s the algorithm, fate, or a curse, but every time I log onto Bluesky I’m served with a healthy heaping of Writer Discourse. Certainly, writers these days spend a lot of time on social media complaining and giving advice instead of writing, which obviously I do too but uhhhh it’s cute when I do it, or something. I understand that most …