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Lawrence Hall [email protected] Dispatches for the Colonial Office                                Everyone Has Advice for Writers       There is a man…hangs odes upon hawthorns and elegies on                brambles…                                       -As You Like It, III.ii.377-380 Who is your target audience, they ask A pair of clevers on the telescreen Giving their audience suggestions for publication Ideas for making it on the writing scene: “Target audience” is their incantation Who is your target audience? Is your target moving or stationary? A paper bullseye or something edible An enemy, a thing, an adversary A carnivore’s luncheon spreadable? Who is your target audience? But a reader is not a target She is not the object of your life - She is the subject of her own Respect your reader Respect
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Sep 22, 2025
Sep 22, 2025 at 9:06 AM UTC
Everyone Has Advice for Writers
Lawrence Hall [email protected] Dispatches for the Colonial Office                                Everyone Has Advice for Writers       There is a man…hangs odes upon hawthorns and elegies on                brambles…                                       -As You Like It, III.ii.377-380 Who is your target audience, they ask A pair of clevers on the telescreen Giving their audience suggestions for publication Ideas for making it on the writing scene: “Target audience” is their incantation Who is your target audience? Is your target moving or stationary? A paper bullseye or something edible An enemy, a thing, an adversary A carnivore’s luncheon spreadable? Who is your target audience? But a reader is not a target She is not the object of your life - She is the subject of her own Respect your reader Respect
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Sep 22, 2025
Sep 22, 2025 at 9:06 AM UTC
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