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Understanding Your Target Audience When Writing Your Novel

How much do you think about your target audience when you are writing your novel? I ponder on this from time to time as I write. As a naive, first time writer, I had not initially given my target audience much thought, but sub-consciously I think I was imagining my target reader to be someone very much like me. But how many of the smaller details of my novel should I be tailoring towards my…

Understanding Your Target Audience When Writing Your Novel

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"In a society which has enthroned a machine-gun and carried it aloft even into the quiet heavens, there will always be men and women- Escapist or not, as you please- who will turn to [Austen's] novels with an unending sense of relief and thankfulness." 

-Beatrice Kean Seymour from D.W. Harding's Regulated Hatred