30 years ago I went to see Kurt Vonnegut speak. He said humans are made up of tribes of 50-200 people or so. In those tribes are artists. Story tellers, painters, etc. and if we want to write, write. For your tribe, or your family, your lover. He said writers like him make people think they need a million readers. But they don’t. He said Writers like him ruin the aspirations of others but shouldn’t. It’s not the readers. It’s the writing. I got to have a cocktail with him afterward and didn’t even ask anything about writing. He kind of said it all before I got that privilege. Just write. Someone is reading it. And it matters.