As creators, we are not alone in this. We seek the help of others, others who choose to hear us when we speak. We want them, need them, and, yes, ask them to say to others, “This person, listen to what he is saying. It will touch you.”
The creation of an audience, then, is collaborative, a growing relationship built on trust.
(Yes, I used “he” to pronoun the gender-neutral “[t]his person” from earlier in that sentence. I acknowledge that while I’m speaking partly in the abstract, I am also pointing at myself, and I identify as male. If you’d like that sentence to point at you as well, feel free to substitute whatever pronoun fits you best.)
(And then yes, in that first parenthetical I used “pronoun” as a verb. Sometimes I do things like that.)