Questions tagged [audience]
Those for whom one writes.
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How can I organize a book where the primary audience is sometimes one group, sometimes another and other times both?
I am writing a non-fiction book, where [for instance] I am talking about the Teacher-Student relationship - and many aspects.
Sometimes the writing is addressing the Teacher and sometimes the Student ...
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How do I find the right audience for my book?
I wrote a book about two years ago with almost no prior planning or outlining done before the writing. I've since matured more and figured out that the audience for my book changes from chapter to ...
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How do I write a story that is purposely meta?
I want to write a story where the author is constantly addressed and made fun of. The author, is a separate person. The author is trying to write a meta story, however she makes it so meta, that it ...
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Is an audience really required to develop writing?
I like writing, particularly on topics of realism and general self-help. Some of my posts are opinion-based, and some are emotive pieces. My attempt at sharing my work in Quora and Medium has failed ...
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With this degree of violence, is my book a Middle Grade book, or a Young adult book?
I am a young author writing my first series. I’m not writing my books simply because I want to or that I am frustrated with other books, but those are some reasons.
The book I am writing is pure ...
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Can you write about a taboo topic without creating a poor image of yourself as a writer?
I am thinking of writing a character that possesses the psychological phenomenon of erotophonophilia (or lust murder, or sexual sadism as it is more commonly known).
I am making sure to do my research ...
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How do you get feedback when sharing your ideas makes you not want to write?
I have a problem in that if I ever tell people about my story ideas, I lose motivation and eventually stop working on them. If I do not tell them I feel like I have pressure to get the story "out ...
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How can I succeed commercially if my idea of a great story is the audience's idea of a terrible story?
This might be a silly question, I apologize if it's off-topic.
I've noticed that audiences and critics typically deeply dislike the majority of works of art that I like the most. Occasionally they ...
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Effective Usage of Twitter for Pre-promotion of a Book
I joined Twitter several years ago, largely for promotional purposes, but while I've since amassed a respectable list of legitimate followers, I haven't successfully made much functional use of the ...
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Do people usually like the side characters more than the MC? [closed]
I feel there is a common audience trend in favoring the side characters more than the MC. And I believe "literary science" backs that up, in regards to character focus. That even though the MC's ...
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How to provide realism without making readers think grimdark
So, I have a couple moments in a fantasy story where I want the heroes' actions to actually have consequences (Well, that are really impactful to the story.) One is where the MCs kill a minor lord, ...
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How to identify target audience? And how much details do I need to know about my perfect reader?
I'm identifying my target audience based on the experiment explained in the Snowflake Method book. The narrator describes it as follows:
“Now I want you to imagine that you’ve published your novel ...
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How do I write for the majority, without alienating my minority?
This is something of a companion question to How does one write from a minority culture? A question on cultural references
I have recently had a somewhat unpleasant experience reading Naomi Novik's ...
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How does one write from a minority culture? A question on cultural references
Christian culture is dominant. Thus, even without being Christian myself, I can recognise, understand and appreciate references that are within that culture, like the Pietà:
Sam sat propped against ...
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A question on determining audience
I'm taking a writing course and the biggest challenge I'm facing is figuring out my audience — particularly for something I have written where I didn't have an audience in mind. Some topics or style ...
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What ages should I market my book towards?
I'm writing a book, and while I'm not even close to finishing, I can't help but wonder what the age of my intended audience should be. I've read a lot of advice that says that age of my protagonist ...
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How can I determine genre and target audience for my memoir/novel?
I am writing a semi-memoir and semi-fictitious novel. My novel is a story which starts with educated, working-class married women and is divided into three parts.
In the first part, she is working on ...
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How can you make "evil vs evil" interesting? [closed]
Let's say you have two sides who are basically no better than the other. Both are criminals with no redeeming qualities, and both are at war. Think COBRA and HYDRA going to war.
They both have plans ...
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How do I maintain effective documentation for different audiences while avoiding duplication?
I need to maintain documentation of the same system for different audiences. How do I avoid duplication while still being effective?
I have a publicly-available API, and I also have internal ...
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How do you explain the details of something technical to a non-technical audience?
When writing about technical topics it is often difficult to get across the complexity of a topic without getting "stuck in the weeds" and ultimately leaving the audience confused or disinterested. ...
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Fantasy Series - YA or Adult protagonist?
I plan on writing a fantasy series at some point. Based on what I've read, my automatic assumption was that the protagonist of such a series would be a teenager, probably around the 17-18 year range. ...
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To what extent do I have to explain certain reasons or choices to my audience?
In my story, there is a spot where there is a major shift in perspective as one point of view is supposed to be from someone writing in the first person to another point of view in the third person. ...
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How do I get more exposure as an author?
I've done everything, from building a nice website, being active on social media, posting my work on numerous websites, but I just cannot seem to get readers/followers. Any advice? Here's my website ...
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Considering the audience for technical publications
At work we provide three types of technical document, aimed at different kinds of users :
The Quick Start Guide. Single laminated sheet, illustrations and basic explanation.
The handbook. A5 format ...
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Would having a story set in a conworld based on the modern age alienate readers?
I know this isn't the conworlding forum, but I'm not asking for a critique on my conworld. I'm asking how people would receive such a thing as a constructed world not based off of ancient cultures, or ...
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How to write and promote my film blog more effectively?
I am using Blogger currently. I have paid for a domain name, but my hosting is free and to be honest I don't really want to pay (being a student). I am a self-proclaimed cinema buff and I love writing ...
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Writing a book that appeals to both genders
So basically my novel consists of the following genres:
Urban fantasy
New Adult (somewhat; it's a high school setting but with details that exceed the boundaries of young adult)
Romance (somewhat; I'...
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Representing minorities without cultural appropriation
Inspired by the great queens of East Africa (e.g. Arawelo in Somalia and Gudit in Ethiopia), I have been researching a fantasy story about a matriarchal culture for the past two years. That research ...
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How can I get reader profiles? [closed]
How can I get a reader profile for a publishing category i.e. criminal justice, social justice?
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Creating a story in which the hero(es) lose [closed]
So I am still in the primitive stages of creating my own world and story, if I even do it that is. I am still trying to get a feel for where I want to go with it. The biggest issue would be that, my ...
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Tips on engaging the audience in the first chapter?
What are some tips you would recommend to immediately attract a reader, or make the story interesting enough to continue reading?
I want to know if there are any specific techniques or ways that you ...
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A character's behaviour changes when returning to more familiar conditions. How should I attempt justify this change to the reader?
The story I'm writing begins with the main character in an unusual and demanding situation. For various reasons, this situation causes him to behave in ways that are quite different to how we see him ...
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YA novel with old protagonist?
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There have been a few very good answers and comments. The feedback I've got so far has made me question whether I'm even going into the right direction with my story. I felt like the themes and ...
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Strategy, tactics, and resources to refine the niche and title for a self-help book
Am trying to do due diligence to find the niche for a self-help book. I "get" the general idea of whether to piggyback or avoid popular titles, being exquisitely specific about your reader, and ...
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High Tech Audience
I have to write a simple introduction on the topic HTTP and its audience will be high tech.
I am having a bit of problem in how to describe it in high tech audience?
Can any one would suggest me how ...
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Fantasy and Science Fiction - should I choose a separate publisher?
I recall reading somewhere (I believe it was Orson Scott Card's How to Write Science Fiction and Fantasy) that you should either stick with one genre or the other. The reason he gave is that if you're ...
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How can I determine a genre's target audience?
I am making this question with the assumption in mind that specific genres attract certain types of people.
How can I determine the target audience based off of genre alone? I'm looking for the ...
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How to write for a certain audience?
I'm busy writing a book that I've been putting off for years. In this book the main character starts off as an 18 year old but grows up to be a young adult, sometimes she will think about when she was ...
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Seeking advice for maintaining child like authenticity without being too immature for the audience
I am writing a novel which I imagine will have an adult or older readership (or at least teen) wherein the main protagonist is a ten year old boy. It is definitely not written for a younger audience ...
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What are common academic categories of a story’s relationship to an audience?
I’m trying to understand the concept of an audience. I feel like exposure to modern stories has given me a vague sense about aspects of this concept but I would really like someone with more formal ...
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How can I write in a way that encourages discussion?
I have a nice sideline as a freelance journalist. Obviously editors consider my work good enough on the whole to be worth commissioning, although I'm sure I could do better in many respects. But it ...
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How can I encourage more comments on my blog?
I've been writing and running my own film and TV reviewing blog for about 8 months now, posting frequently (usually at least once a week) and what I would consider good quality content (although ...
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What is the expected target age for a YA (Young Adult) novel?
I'm curious about what the expected age for a YA young adult novel is, because it seems to have a huge range. I think most people believe these books are targeted at roughly 12-16 year olds, but to ...
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Intensity scale for romance novels?
I've been looking about on #MSWL on Twitter, and I see editors using some kind of informal scale for the intensity of the sexual content in a romance novel. For example: "sweet to hot," "erotic," "hot ...
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As an new author, how important is to have a personal website?
I'm planning to create a Facebook page where I can (hopefully) build a small fan base. I've seen many authors who have a personal websites. I'm not very sure, though, how important this is, and ...
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Research about science fiction readers?
Has research been done (at any level) that gives demographic and other statistical information about the readers of science fiction? I'm curious about age, gender, educational level, reading interests,...
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What is the term for an accessible character that knows nothing?
In a lot of books, movies, or TV shows, there will be a character that knows little to nothing about the subject at hand. Most cop shows and medical shows will have someone who doesn't know very ...
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How can I prepare for a career in instruction writing and editing?
To technical background authors (e.g. Isaac Rabinovitch) who would possibly work in teams with non-technically trained writers:
How can I prepare myself to be able to do what you do?
How can I ...
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Are the web audience who love microblogging and the book audience who love long stories different?
In my experience
readers on-line prefer summarized news and condensed stories
a separate audience for traditional books love long stories.
It seems we now reached the point where we write in ...
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What are good places to post your work where it will be read by others?
Seeing this site and reading some of my ridiculous stories that I wrote a while ago makes me want to start writing again. I know I'll be more enthusiastic if I have people reading my work and ...
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