https://www.authorlearningcenter.com/writing/i-have-an-idea/w/identifying-your-audience/2978/finding-an-audience-by-writing-what-you-know---articleen-USTelligent Community 10https://www.authorlearningcenter.com/writing/i-have-an-idea/w/identifying-your-audience/2978/finding-an-audience-by-writing-what-you-know---articleSat, 04 Mar 2017 08:58:53 GMT809ccca5-04d2-44bf-8f5c-ff0a6d33c80b:c0b6d76e-dfe3-4f63-bb5e-af2687755d56Michael Criderhttps://www.authorlearningcenter.com/writing/i-have-an-idea/w/identifying-your-audience/2978/finding-an-audience-by-writing-what-you-know---article#commentsCurrent Revision posted to Identifying Your Audience by Michael Crider on 3/4/2017 8:58:53 AM<br /> <p>I never decided to become a writer. I was writing a book for my son, because I wanted him to read it and know what I was going through when he was a baby. Then I started to realize that there weren&rsquo;t very many pregnancy books out there for men. There were a lot out there for women, as there should be, but I wanted to write for men who were going to be involved with pregnancy, childbirth, and fatherhood. And I also wanted the book to allow women to understand what the men in their lives were thinking even though they might be afraid to say it. Thinking about my audience made me realize that my jokes needed to work for people in small towns as well as for people in big cities. They had to be universal&mdash;the kinds of jokes everybody can understand and find funny. My personal experiences really enriched my writing in that everything that I wrote was absolutely true&mdash;the good, the bad and the ugly&mdash;and because of that, the audience really connected with it and it reached a level that I never thought it would get to.</p><div style="clear:both;"></div> <div style="font-size: 90%;">Tags: article, fiction, Nonfiction</div> https://www.authorlearningcenter.com/writing/i-have-an-idea/w/identifying-your-audience/2978/finding-an-audience-by-writing-what-you-know---article/revision/1Wed, 14 Dec 2016 00:00:00 GMT809ccca5-04d2-44bf-8f5c-ff0a6d33c80b:c0b6d76e-dfe3-4f63-bb5e-af2687755d56Michael Criderhttps://www.authorlearningcenter.com/writing/i-have-an-idea/w/identifying-your-audience/2978/finding-an-audience-by-writing-what-you-know---article#commentsRevision 1 posted to Identifying Your Audience by Michael Crider on 12/14/2016 12:00:00 AM<br /> <p>I never decided to become a writer. I was writing a book for my son, because I wanted him to read it and know what I was going through when he was a baby. Then I started to realize that there weren’t very many pregnancy books out there for men. There were a lot out there for women, as there should be, but I wanted to write for men who were going to be involved with pregnancy, childbirth, and fatherhood. And I also wanted the book to allow women to understand what the men in their lives were thinking even though they might be afraid to say it. Thinking about my audience made me realize that my jokes needed to work for people in small towns as well as for people in big cities. They had to be universal—the kinds of jokes everybody can understand and find funny. My personal experiences really enriched my writing in that everything that I wrote was absolutely true—the good, the bad and the ugly—and because of that, the audience really connected with it and it reached a level that I never thought it would get to. </p><div style="clear:both;"></div> <div style="font-size: 90%;">Tags: article, fiction, Nonfiction</div>