The Audience

[billy]

I don't know who the audience is. I've read this site enough to have an idea what people here might like or not like. But elsewhere it seems normal to constantly be using the phrase or the idea The Reader. I get messages and have people tell me in person about The Reader, as though it's a colony of equal-minded people who know exactly what they want to read before anything's been written.

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i usually use the phrase i the reader and sometimes [the reader]. i use it to mean how i perceive others could see it as i see it. presumptuous i know but i'm guessing many will have a similar POV to me. i don't usually do the pre writing thing with {your audience} as such

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I get a sense of an aura in me and around me, it has a certain color for each poem or story, and everything manifests out of it, all I have to think about is the words and the content. It comes and goes before I'm finished, but once it goes and doesn't come back it's hard to do anything else about it. It's like a portal opened and the poem or story came out, and then it's hard for me to judge whether it's any good or not, because whatever was influencing my involvement with it is gone.

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we are who we are, what you see or feel is probably unique to you. most of us will have or feel something similar. [it going] is often i presume, a pre cursor to writer's block for many of us.

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And sometimes I meet someone who seems to radiate that aura at all times. So whenever I think of that person I can write on cue, that sense of manifesting poetry never stops. But then I'm stuck in the awkward position of being in the presence of a literal flesh and blood muse. And if the poetry is no good, that might mean I'm insane. So hence my constant conflict.

again, we've all [i'm presuming again] had that muse we write for or have written for. my partner got me writing poetry again. belive it or not, while we're all unique, we're all the same.