Blogging 101: Write to Your Dream Reader

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In some ways, my inner self is practically salivating at the prospect of writing exactly what’s on my mind in a post to be read by any number of targeted ‘dream readers’. I even went so far as to list, on paper, the name of each person I would love to address in such a forum.

My motivations, not unlike those of Frank Costanza with Festivus pole at hand, are rooted in a variety of (mostly) well-placed intentions: for some, there is indeed a sincere desire to steer these Readers toward a better path, to prevent them the heartache and hardship that surely awaits them given their current self-destructive behavior while for others, an opportunity to inform them of how I and others perceive their smug self-righteousness, bigotry, arrogance and hypocrisy and how much hurt and hard feelings their actions have caused to others.

For any number of reasons, I recognize that, yes, it is probably wise to just keep these thoughts to myself. There are some things in life best learned by trial and (much) error and besides, who am I that any of these Readers should take what I say with anything more than that proverbial grain of salt.

Oh, but to devise some ingenious method of projecting ones thoughts and views onto another’s psyche in a gentle but firmly anonymous manner, one where you can get your point across, get results and yet have not a shred of skin in the game!

Assignment: Blogging 101: Write to Your Dream Reader

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  1. Confused here. I’m not sure who you lashing out at as I never started this series of Blogging 101, though I signed up, and was surprised to see the ads. Help me out here?

    • Today’s assignment is to write a post to an imagined reader. My take on this was to say something if you knew someone — your target reader — would read. My comments are somewhat dark and surreptitious as my immediate thought when I read the assignment was how delicious it would feel to actually write something for a select, intended audience. However, for a number of reasons (chief among them, that someone would actually know who I was addressing!) I’ve chosen a broader approach without actually getting into any specifics.

      Hmmm. I’m thinking I probably failed spectacularly since I’m struggling to explain it! Check out the hyperlink in the post for more info.

      🙂

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