At the footer of every Paul Graham Essay, you see him ackowledging his draft readers.
This seems a) heh! this feels kinda “exclusive” and rarified b) perhaps if I write something that requires me to have “draft readers”, I might work on long form articles that are worthy of more than one person’s time.
I am going to make a list of people that I will send my drafts to, and work on lengthening that list.
It might also help to write your stuff with these draft readers in mind. It helps in two ways:
- You have an audience that you can picture “listening” to you.
- The above implies they are an “and…” listener, this also gives you a safe space to consider what they might say “I agree, and …” to.