Explain your niche to outsiders

Use with: blog-post. Resume line when done: Wrote and published an explainer for non-experts — live at {url}

Brief

The hobby your family does not get, explained so they finally do. Warhammer, fishkeeping, speedrunning, crochet patterns: whichever is yours, written for one specific confused relative instead of for the internet at large. You write it; the agent plays the confused reader and pushes on every piece of jargon. Done when the relative reads it and asks a follow-up question instead of changing the subject.

Personalize

• The niche. Yours, with years in it. You need the scars from learning it to explain it well.
• The one reader. Name the relative. Their specific confusions ("so it's gambling?", "why does it cost that much?") become your section headings.
• The entry point. Whatever hooked you is usually what will make sense to them first. Open with it.

Milestones

1. A list of every question the relative has asked, plus the ones they were too polite to ask.
2. Outline built from those questions.
3. Full draft written by you, jargon translated or cut.
4. Workshop pass: the agent reads as the relative and flags every spot it got lost; you fix those spots.
5. Published at a public URL, then sent to the relative.

Done means

• Live at a public URL
• The relative read it and understood it, by their own account
• A newcomer could read it without looking anything up
• The writing and examples are yours
• The hobby's costs and time demands are stated honestly