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"Put the Paper Out Just for Me"

11/28/2015

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​There’s a line I read one time from a writer who grew up wanting to be a newspaper man.  He didn’t want to be a writer.  The reason he wanted to be a newspaper guy instead was the sense he got from the newspaper he read as a kid:  He felt the writers were putting the paper out just for him.  “HE” was the audience.

That’s a great insight and also something we all should consider when writing:  Keep your audience in mind.  Write for them.  Don’t write for yourself.
 
All great writing goes down that path because if it doesn’t, you lose your readers.  They don’t follow.
 
Recently I had the opportunity to interview several people for a story, and my questions all funneled from my thoughts of, “What will the readers want to hear?  What’s going to be interesting to them?  What flows from one part of the story to the next to keep the reader engaged?
 
By continuing to structure my questions with those thoughts in mind, I hope I got good information that made the story much more engaging for the readers.  When you take on a subject, keep those tips in mind and you’ll find your readership growing.

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