6. You are your own audience
Don’t ask who your audience is…you are the audience: You are writing primarily to please yourself, and if you go about it with enjoyment you will also entertain the readers who are worth writing for.
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I am just another guy. Random at that. Looking for nothing meaningful in particular. In my own journey, in search for happiness. And meaning.
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