Finding Your Implicit Audience Finding Your Implicit Audience by Mariska Stamenkovic Writing is not exactly a team sport. As a writer you spend most of your time chugging away by your lonesome, with only your words for company. You're not talking to yourself, you are having a conversation.
Many writers are only dimly aware of their audience as they draft their stories.
Some believe the reader doesn't come into play at all until the story is finished, or the article on the editor's desk. But since we write to be read, readers are an essential part of the writing process itself. Your audience is an implicit part of your writing, as much as plot and characters. Writers tend to become hopelessly blocked when they try to please specific readers. Especially when those readers are themselves writers.