For myself. I would write my blog even if no one read it.
I write for me. I write what I find funny and of a world through which the lens comes from my own perception of it. I think most writers do. We mostly perceive the external through our own individual brains, so I feel we have a tendency to transmit that to the page.
Like every other writer, I write for myself. They may not admit it, but I believe it's true. If you don't satisfy yourself with your writing, why should you expect it to satisfy someone else?
I never thought I would say this, because the marketer/businessman in me would have wanted me to write for a specific audience. But the truth is, I write for myself. Writing is hard work, and I'm apparently unwilling to do it if I don't really enjoy the project and the creative payoff from doing the work. So, to make it big as a writer, I'm going to have to really know myself and then find ways to align my interests with those of the public at large.
Myself. Most of my stories come from exercising feelings, thoughts, fears and wishes.
Me of course.
Myself. I love being an out and proud gay man, true to myself. I used to try to make everyone else happy but you learn you can only please yourself.
I must write for myself, or I would quit writing. I would lie if I said I never imagine the audience while I write. But in the end, I write what I would like to read. I can only assume--or hope--there are others interested in the same characters, setting, and plot as I.
Deep down? I don't make any secret of it: I write for myself. If other people like it too, I'm thrilled. The fact that somebody wants to pay for something I wrote sent me straight over the moon!
I absolutely adore and am grateful to my fanfiction reader--in a way, I do write with some of them in mind, hoping they'll like it, because they gave me such encouragement to move forward with my work.
Of course I have some mindfulness about what has a ghost of a chance of selling and what doesn't, but that doesn't mean I won't write something niggling at the back of my brain.
Deep down inside, I write for the fans. In any industry, the fans keep the business alive. Therefore, they are my priority.
No one person, other than myself. My children's stories have been written for my children.
Ah, I am a lover, I have always been. Even when there were bullets flying everywhere in Kabul, I sat in our basement and played music. I never forgot about singing those love poems written by these Afghan poets. I am a lover. I have always been. And I will be.
Only for myself.
I write for my 11-13 year old self, who first fell in love with books. |
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