Creating Authentically or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Create Like Nobody’s Watching

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My early exploration of personal blogging took me down several clickbait-, buzzword-, and listicle-filled rabbit holes: “Ten ways to get more followers”, “How to find your niche”, “Five habits of insanely successful writers”, etc. The more I read, the more it seemed that the measure of a successful creator is their ability to amass…