WIP Challenge - Check In Day 13 - Tuesday

[the_rck]

Poll #16350

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Today I

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planned
3 (75.0%)

researched
0 (0.0%)

wrote
3 (75.0%)

sent to beta
0 (0.0%)

edited
1 (25.0%)

posted
0 (0.0%)

rested
0 (0.0%)

did something else
1 (25.0%)

The way I feel about that is

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Mean: 7.50 Median: 7.5 Std. Dev 1.80

Terrible 1		0 (0.0%)
2		0 (0.0%)
3		0 (0.0%)
4		0 (0.0%)
5		1 (25.0%)
6		0 (0.0%)
7		1 (25.0%)
8		1 (25.0%)
9		0 (0.0%)
Wonderful 10		1 (25.0%)

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 a lot of fic exchanges, so I usually have a specific person in mind as the audience for the story. I seem to write better that way; I'm more likely to buckle down and finish. Even with projects that aren't for an exchange, I seem to do better when writing with a specific person in mind.

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[samuraiter]

If I am not directly filling a request, as is the case for most of what I write (i.e. AO3 exchanges), and if I am not filling a square on a fandom bingo card, then the audience is me, though I occasionally make adjustments depending on who might end up reading up. (If a story will be of interest to me and literally no one else, I still write it, I just set it to "Private".)