If developing an audience is in fact a skill–and so far, I continue to think that it is–then how does one practice it?
Honestly, I don’t exactly know–if I did I’d be doing it already. But my best guess is to follow every idea and see what works.
This is bound to be a little tiring. But surely it is better than the alternative, that is, toiling away in obscurity, waiting for magic to occur so that you get discovered, until eventually and inevitably you succumb to bitterness because it doesn’t work that way.
It just doesn’t work that way. We have to make our own magic.