Surfing instead of writing *sigh*

I read a great post over at The Intern just now about how we as writers shouldn't compare ourselves to other writers. Here's the take-away quote (emphasis added):

You write what you write. You are what you are. And, no matter how anxious you may be to have everybody like you, you’re not going to get there by scrambling to become what you think the world wants. You will never be young enough/old enough/smart enough/dumb enough to please everybody, so you should really just do what you love and let the world take care of itself.

I think that is something we can all keep in mind at those times when we start to lose our sense of fabulousness. Perhaps you really really really want to be published, but it is not going to happen by second-guessing what "the reader" wants. There is no such thing as THE reader, only readers: some like monkey-thrillers, some like Star Trek slash, some like cozy murder mysteries, but somewhere out there will be one or more who like what you write.