Who I write for
The ever creative ze-frank is currently asking a great question about creative process.
From his current post:
When you make things with an audience in mind, do you have internal representations of that audience to help guide you in the process? Are you in dialogue with a cast of proto-audience members that somehow represent different facets of your perceived audience? Are there little homunculi that provide editorial voices different from your own?
My answer, which I posted, is that I don’t have formalized characters when I’m writing a book or preparing a talk. But there is an ongoing dialog in my head when revising that approximates three or four imaginary people:
- The curious neophyte. If someone at random walked in off the street would any of this make sense? Would they keep reading/listening?
- The expert asshole. What if the person who knew everything about this subject and loved to criticize read this paragraph or heard this lecture. What vitriol would I hear? What bullshit would they call me on?
- The daily grinder. How about the guy who actually does whatever I’m talking about for a living and when I’m done will go straight back to work. Will anything I write or say impact what he does the rest of the day? week? month?
- The fan. Will someone familiar with my work find this boring? repetitive? derivative? Can I make this more fun for them instead of less?
Hola Scott,
I discovered your blog a few months back just by simple chance as I was goggling information in Project Management and since then I have been stick to your blog.
There is so much cleverness, ingenuity, creativity and fascination in all your articles ,posts and in the same time covering so many different subjects and matters business and non business related.
I am not sure whether “YOU WRITE FOR ME” or not… though I do enjoy myself very much reading it and it’s been lot of fun so far.
Might creativity be with you :)
Keep the good job!
Miquel
Miquel:
Hola! Much thanks for your comment. The last few weeks hasn’t seen too many comments, so it was a real pleasure to read such a positive one like yours.
If you have a topic you’d like to see me write about, or a question you want me to answer, fire away. Many of my posts come by request.
Cheers and hope you’ll keep reading! Adios!