Getting to know your audience as a writer

Posted: August 25, 2025 | Author: samsywoodsy | Filed under: Matters that Matter | Tags: advice, audience, blogging, blogs, creative writing, Humour, marketing, tips, writing |Leave a comment

Don’t.

Can you imagine? Ghastly.

Do you really want to associate with the sort of people who are inclined to read a blog like this?

Instead, get to know yourself, not your audience.

They are lucky if they happen upon you.

Focus on getting out what you want to share from within.

Use the words that only you know how to put in that particular sequence (or sparce lack thereof) and say what you’re thinking, feeling…writing.

Be unappreciated in your own time.

I am.

I try to be.

The pay is terrible but the hours saved from opening royalty checks makes it worth while.

If you want this to work, remember this is about WRITING.

READING only enters the picture as an afterthought (minus proofreading) and shouldn’t be encouraged.

All it takes is a little bit more YOU, and a little bit less THEM.

This writing, these words, are by and for you.

Write YOU.

E.g. I’ve spent approximately 8 minutes writing the above, and I feel better already

Not time well spent, perhaps, but then again I’m unappreciated in my own time – so when it comes to wasting hours; I’m loaded.

Sam

P.S Unrelated but I wanted to quickly emphasise that not all units of measurement are for polite company. I can’t be the only one. But I’ll follow-up on that.

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