Blogging/Writing

Make a Strong, Loyal Reader Base Now

My travel blogger friend asked how I grew my following. These are notes from that conversation.

JM Heatherly
3 min readAug 20, 2021

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Recently, I read an excellent article by my friend and peer from Ireland, Orla Kenny. She details her experience publishing one hundred posts on her blog in her piece. Now that she accomplished that in six months, she feels it’s time to rethink her strategy on this platform.

Could you take a moment to observe her adventures? She writes about traveling across Europe and shares her poignant perspective along the way. While she plans to return home soon, I look forward to seeing what comes next for her.

Now she wants to publish things that inspire her rather than pushing content in quantity. She desires to be even more authentic in connecting with others and to focus on her interests. We corresponded in the comments section.

I commented on her post, congratulating her on her success. While I started on Medium in 2018, I put my blog on ice until April 2021. After telling her I had written for the past three months, she asked me about my experience.

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JM Heatherly

(he/they) Edit, Garden, Hospitality, Music, Organize, Socialist. Finding gems to polish for you. https://www.jmheatherly.com/