God

There are so many ways to write.

I write for me, but if I were just writing to be read, there are a million ways to rack up numbers of readers.  Certain titles draw readers like ants to honey.  All I have to do is name it right and people will click on it.  The machine doesn't care what they do after they land here.  It just gives me the benefit of the doubt and assumes they go ahead and read what I wrote.

So if I want numbers I pick the right name, but what if I want people to read controversial subjects all the way through?  Then I have to be wilier.  I write about universal things in the beginning, things almost everyone is interested in and agrees with to some extent.  Then at the end I throw in my little zinger, my own opinion and it is read before it is understood.

That might not make anyone change their mind or agree with me, but the seed is planted and if it is good, some day it will grow.

That is not as under handed as it sounds.  A good idea will appear when its time comes and the more people who think it is their idea, the better.  People are always much more excited by their own creations.  If something is worth bringing into being, it is worth whatever time it takes.

That is the God principle:  everything in its time.