Grant Me an Audience

The question of the day, and perhaps the month and year, is: Who is your audience?  This is generally not a problem for me.  I have taught writing and constantly harped on my students to identify their audience, otherwise their papers would have no real structure.  So, now I come to this same question in regards to this blog. Who is my audience?  I will attempt to define you darling reader, just to appease the gods of writing.  Do you enjoy a good laugh?  Do you find random topics interesting?  Do you get irritated with daily BS? Are you a lover of snark? Do you enjoy a good turn of phrase?  Do you cry occasionally?  Do you believe that there is more going on in the world than we can possibly keep up with? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then perhaps this blog is for you.  I am not going to attempt to define my audience any further than this.  I had thought about trying to tailor this to women between the ages of 25 and 70, but really?  This is just not doable.  The experience of a 25 year old woman is entirely different than the experience of a 70 year old woman.  Plus, this leaves my mother out, since she is 72, and also my niece, who is just 16.  This just does not work for me. I suppose what I am attempting to convey, is that if I worry overly about who I want to read this, then I will never write and post anything.  If the parameters are too narrow, then there will be no readership.  Too broad?  Same deal.  Good grief, I could certainly get bogged down and never write a word.  I would agree that any student taking a writing course should define their audience, but I am going to pass.  Why?  Because I can.  Here’s my thought. If you check in occasionally and like what you read, check in again from time to time.  If you don’t like what you read, check in from time to time to see if you still don’t like it.  You see, even if we don’t like what someone else writes, it seems we still feel the need to read it and remark on how much we don’t like it.  The same could apply for really enjoying what we read. Of course I hope for the latter, but I’ll take either one.  So, here we go. I hope you enjoy yourselves, and if you don’t, keep coming back and work on that in the mean time.