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STORYCRAFT: STRATEGIC AUDIENCE

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Junot Díaz
Oct 06, 2023
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Mia Funk, Audience Portrait

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We’ve been talking about audience from a nearly philosophical altitude (which is all fine and good) but I’d like to share some of my approaches to audience at a more practical level, a craft level.

TWO

Craftily speaking, audience is one of the most useful, most reliable, and most oft-ignored tools in a writer’s armamentarium.  Doing audience well (mindfully) adds so much to your fiction in terms of coherence, authority, and calor humano. 

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