attend to the needs of those readers
15th April 2017 | for Creatives | create for YOURSELF, writing, reaching your audience, writer-reader relationship, publishing, Ryan G. Van Cleave |
"There's a huge difference between writing for yourself (aka journaling) and writing for an external human audience. If your goal is to be published, there's no getting away from caring about—at least a little—what other people want from your writing. So at some point in your process, you need to attend to the needs of those readers."
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