writing to someone
Sometimes I just have to sit down and write. I am not writing. I am not writing. I should be writing but I am not writing. The weather outside is dreary, making it perfect weather for writing. But I am not.
Do people imagine someone in their head, even visualize them, imagine how s/he would respond, when writing a piece? You always hear that it is crucial for a good piece to imagine what your audience is – but how many people actually also imagine, even visualize, one specific person s/he is talking to?
Usually when I write, I don’t have anyone particular in mind. The audience I am ‘imagining’, is more like a particular mode I am in – blogging mode, academic writing mode – that guides my writing.
Perhaps I should start to visualize the person I am talking/writing to. Would that be insane? A first step to schizophrenia? Are there other people who have tried this? 
Posted in blogging
May 18th, 2008 at 10:31 pm
Hm, when I blog, I actually imagine that the audience is myself in third person, removed from myself, so maybe that is the beginning of multiple personality disorder… When I write random things that do not have an obvious audience (like pieces that are not dedicated to anyone), then my imagined audience is a bunch of ambiguous people who are like mulitple me’s. Or males/females who are my peers/of my age group or ppl going thru similar stage in life.
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