Do I know my audience?

Easy answer...no

All throughout school I was told "Know your audience."  A typical teacher phrase.

What does it mean? It means you should know who is reading your stuff...if you're writing about a book...you should know if your audience is reading to learn about the book because they haven't read it and they want to know about it...you should know if they are reading because they are looking for your interpretation of the book...basically has your reader read the book before or not....how much background info do you have to put into the writing in order for it to make sense to your reader...

Well ok I don't usually write about books...but I still sit here wondering...who is my audience?

It is always interesting for me when someone comes up to me and is all like...wow I've been reading your blog I really liked X,Y, and Z.

or maybe its just a casual mention about my blog and I'm all like "Whoah I had no clue you read that!"

Or the moment when you get "so and so was talking to me all about your blog the other day..."

Who are you people that I am writing for? friends, acquaintances, complete strangers?

WHO ARE YOU?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

I really just started this as a place to write down extended thoughts of things I think about...writing down thoughts about thinking...yes, I know what you are thinking... I am so intelligent and eloquent

anyway it started out as something for me and if other people wanted to read it they could...if not ... whatever...but as I keep going I grow more and more curious about who is reading this blog...do they like it? Do they wish I could write about something in particular? Do they have a way to contact me?

well I suppose you could contact me via the comments...I don't really check the email associated with blog all that often...lets be honest I made it when I was little so giving out the name to people is embarrassing...My google plus circles are lookin' really small so not too many people can contact me that way...but I suppose there are ways for you to contact me.

I'm not even completely sure where I was going with this post...I really just have been thinking about it a bit. Its interesting this digital world where I don't even have to know the people I am writing for, and where they (whoever they are) can read it as soon as I post it.

I suppose I'll just continue on doing what I'm doing...seeing as that was the point of this blog and all, but feel free to comment and such...feedback is always a wonderful thing

In other news I'm in an interesting music phase right now and cutesy/weird music is apparently now for me...

and that my friends is what you get from sleep deprived writing...have a random day!