I Got to Watch a Reader Actually Laugh Out Loud at My Writing for the First Time, and It Completely Recalibrated How I Think About This Whole Job

I Got to Watch a Reader Actually Laugh Out Loud at My Writing for the First Time, and It Completely Recalibrated How I Think About This Whole Job – Years of writing for an invisible, unknowable audience. Then, once, by pure accident, I got to actually watch the joke land in real time.