Comments on: Writing for Your Audience http://www.dailywritingtips.com/writing-for-your-audience/ Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:00:10 -0600 hourly 1 By: Joy-Mari Cloete http://www.dailywritingtips.com/writing-for-your-audience/comment-page-1/#comment-3584 Joy-Mari Cloete Mon, 29 Oct 2007 09:46:14 +0000 http://www.dailywritingtips.com/writing-for-your-audience/#comment-3584 Is there really such a thing as an "ideal reader"? Surely not, as we are far too complex. I'm sure that one of these "ideal readers" will take issue with something you said, and absolutely adore your next piece. Perhaps an "ideal reader" is someone who can comment on, and discuss your work? Is there really such a thing as an “ideal reader”? Surely not, as we are far too complex. I’m sure that one of these “ideal readers” will take issue with something you said, and absolutely adore your next piece.

Perhaps an “ideal reader” is someone who can comment on, and discuss your work?

]]> By: Ilya Dubinsky http://www.dailywritingtips.com/writing-for-your-audience/comment-page-1/#comment-2439 Ilya Dubinsky Wed, 26 Sep 2007 21:26:32 +0000 http://www.dailywritingtips.com/writing-for-your-audience/#comment-2439 In Umberto Eco's "Six Walks in the Fictional Woods", a notion of "ideal reader" is described. An ideal reader is a reader that responds to precisely every word the author writes in precisely the manner the author intended. I think you're describing the same concept from a different view point - by urging authors to imagine their ideal reader before they start writing. In Umberto Eco’s “Six Walks in the Fictional Woods”, a notion of “ideal reader” is described. An ideal reader is a reader that responds to precisely every word the author writes in precisely the manner the author intended.

I think you’re describing the same concept from a different view point – by urging authors to imagine their ideal reader before they start writing.

]]>