when I write as if I am broadcasting, the people I attract are a lot less interesting to me
- you want to bore those who find your thoughts boring, it is a filter
- when you make a effort to select and get rejected thatβs a win β you successfully filtered out who you wanted to filter out
- every behavior rule you have is also a selection rule
- if youβre not letting conscious preferences guide you, you may be very surprised about who youβre actually selecting for
(not from here, but similar, and i think by the same writer)
βI deliberately made it tedious and inaccessible - anti-clickbait. Not so much to deter other people but to deter myself from pandering to other peopleβ
writing framed stories not only answered all those troubling questions about the narratorβs audience, but also neatly integrated the answers into the narrative itself. i knew not only who was speaking, but who was being spoken to.
- π· TL;DR get the voice of your writing right by choosing an audience
Donβt dumb down: Always write for your top five percent of readers.
Forget your generalized audience. In the first place, the nameless, faceless audience will scare you to death and in the second place, unlike the theater, it doesnβt exist. In writing, your audience is one single reader. I have found that sometimes it helps to pick out one personβa real person you know, or an imagined person and write to that one.