Lawrence Hall
Dispatches for the Colonial Office
Everyone Has Advice for Writers
There is a man…hangs odes upon hawthorns and elegies on brambles…
-As You Like It, III.ii.377-380
Who
is your target audience, they ask
A
pair of clevers on the telescreen
Giving
their audience suggestions for publication
Ideas
for making it on the writing scene:
“Target
audience” is their incantation
Who
is your target audience?
Is
your target moving or stationary?
A
paper bullseye or something edible
An
enemy, a thing, an adversary
A
carnivore’s luncheon spreadable?
Who
is your target audience?
But
a reader is not a target
She
is not the object of your life -
She is the
subject of her own
Respect
your reader
Respect
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