Wednesday, steeling myself to face my Ideal Reader

You know, I was thinking about something: in On Writing, Stephen King says that we're each writing for an Ideal Reader. His is his wife, and at certain points in a draft, he'll think to himself, "Oh, she's really going to like this." I can't believe I didn't stop and ask myself this before, given that this isn't even the first time I'd read the book, but who, exactly, is my ideal reader? ( Read more... )

( Linkspam: You're going to feel foolish in about three paragraphs )