WIP Challenge - Check In Day 1 - Monday

[the_rck]

Poll #15862

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Today I

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planned
0 (0.0%)

researched
0 (0.0%)

wrote
2 (100.0%)

sent to beta
0 (0.0%)

edited
0 (0.0%)

posted
0 (0.0%)

rested
0 (0.0%)

did something else
0 (0.0%)

The way I feel about that is

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Mean: 7.50 Median: 7.5 Std. Dev 2.50

Terrible 1		0 (0.0%)
2		0 (0.0%)
3		0 (0.0%)
4		0 (0.0%)
5		1 (50.0%)
6		0 (0.0%)
7		0 (0.0%)
8		0 (0.0%)
9		0 (0.0%)
Wonderful 10		1 (50.0%)

When you write, do you have an audience in mind? That is, do you write thinking about how people will react to the story or with the intention of pleasing specific people? Or do you write entirely for yourself, following the story that calls to you without thinking about who might read it?

I do my best writing when I have at least one specific person in mind and am trying to write to what will please them. That means that I do a lot of exchanges and that my big WIP is kind of stalled out because I don't have a specific person I'm writing it for. There are plenty of people who would be pleased to see more of Rheotaxis, but I don't know and communicate with them specifically.

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[sperrywink]

I don't write with specific readers in mind, but when I am writing, I do think about how an imaginary reader would react. Is it confusing? does it flow? Would they find this as funny as I think it is? I do write to please myself, that's always there too, but also this imaginary reader.

[linaewen]

I have a couple of stories that I am writing just for me, and have no one else in mind. However, in other cases, I do have specific readers in mind, as the ones who first gave me the idea to write, or the ones who requested a specific story element (as in an exchange).