Audience

by Victoria Constant
15th May 2013

How can you tell who you're audience is, I find I start out with one audience in mind but by the end I'm not sure if it's suitbable. Does anyone else find this?

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Sonya, I'm pretty sure my answer to that feedback would have been 'Reader, I married him.'

I have plans to write a book which directly references the reader throughout. It depends on your genre and exactly how it helps the story, but it can be done... carefully.

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15/05/2013

I had a target audience in mind before I started writing. My target audience did not change after I had completed my manuscript.

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Yes I have the same problem. If the MC makes a journey and changes in the novel, then the audience could change-my MC starts off as a young, happy go-lucky thing that becomes fairly depressed at one stage and then introspective, so she really changes throughout the novel. I had even addressed my audience and was given feedback to remove the reference-direct addresses to the reader are not 'Fiction-proper' but only used in non-fiction, apparently.

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