Audience and writers

I was thinking about the "Who is our audience, and how does that affect how we write?" discussion, which was diva-ed so ably by Emily. We talked about friends, and family, and strangers... and our future selves. We were the missing audience in our discussion. We read each other, and blog for each other. We blog for the people whose blogs we admire, for the people who inspire us. When we start paying attention to each other, and blogging for each other, we become a literary movement and a powerful force. We don't write just for each other, but we write knowing that particular other writers are looking.

If you think about literary movements and their histories, you will see that this is true. That's all they are. They're groups of writers who write with the awareness of each other's attention. It kicks up the intensity a notch. That's happening all over in blogging, very rapidly, in many small groups and some huge groups. Writers are feeding each other energy and inspiration by being each others' audiences.