The upside of having very few readers...

is that there are less "bosses" to please. To explain, I recently received a newsletter via email and it contained the interesting debate on who writers work for. This question leads to the next thought: is the writer obliged to please his or her readers? Anu Garg from A.Word.A.Day* stated: A writer usually doesn't have a boss. On the other hand, a writer's boss is his readers. You could say I have 800,000 bosses. But this relationship is not so clearcut. Let me explain. From time to time a r...