Write to Please Yourself

Readers want to know who you are and what you believe

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One of the hardest lessons for new writers is figuring out who you write for when you create. Writing has been part of my life since I was twelve years old, but it took me until my early thirties to realize I was wasting much of my writing time trying to write to make a fictitious reader living in my head happy.