For Whom do you Write?

In addition to writing what you know, you should also know to who you are writing. Simply stated: know your audience. Shakespeare wrote a couple plays for Queen Elizabeth. Do you think he tailored those for the common, unwashed masses? Good public speakers can often change their speeches based on their audience, even down to a specific member. There is an anecdote that I heard, don't know if it's true, that the rock band, The Who, were pitching Tommy, and found out that the guy they were pitching too was a huge fan of pinball, hence the song, Pinball Wizard.

Lately, I've been in a writing rut. I did the blog, but then wouldn't dive in to my projects. In essence, I was overwhelmed, and felt I could not write what I wanted to right. The audience either wasn't there, they wouldn't be interested, or worse, that it wouldn't be any good.

I've had the recent epiphany that none of that matters. I am the audience. I am writing for myself. I am the only one who has to like it. Though my ultimate goal is to write for money, and yes, I will have to write for an audience at some point in time, I only have to write for myself for now. I just need to get the rough draft of the story out.

You guys can have the rewrite.