“Whoever the average reader was of my newspaper, I never wrote for him. I always wrote for the people living the event. And I wanted not to be embarassed in front of them as a writer.
So if I’m writing about somebody who is struggling with addiction, I want other people who have struggled with addiction to say ‘Yeah, you got it right.’ Or people who are police doing a certain job, I wanted them to say ‘Yeah, you got it right.’ Or a street level drug trafficer, I wanted them to say ‘that was real’.”
– David Simon, Creator of HBO’s The Wire
That makes a very good point. As a relatively new blogger, with currently just a family-related blog, I recently thought about who I was writing for – and realized I didn’t ‘aim’ my writing at anyone, I just wrote as I thought. As I start writing for more blogs, I will have to work on that.
Nice to see sombody else figured that out! i love reading stuff that i can relate to. I’ve learned that what i write doesn’t have to make sense to every one, as long as it rings true to some-one’s heart.