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Where Have all the Readers Gone?

Where Have all the Readers Gone?

It’s the summer blues, baby. So here are some writing prompts to get you through the slow season

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Robert Roy Britt
Jun 17, 2024
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If you feel like your stories aren’t getting as much traction lately, you might be suffering ISB, the Internet Summer Blues. I’ve watched this trend play out in online readership stats going back to the late 1990s, and witnessed it last summer on Medium, when my newly launched publication, and all its writers, experienced some serious ISB.

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