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Ideal Readers and Why They Are Necessary

By Veronica Sicoe @VeronicaSicoe

On the wide planes of the internet, an ideal reader is defined all across the spectrum, from an abstract” construct designed to represent your audience,” to an actual person, “a trusted partner, adviser and the first person to read the writer‘s first draft of a book.” But the best definition I found so far was this: an ideal reader is someone “whose persona you try to adopt as you read and re-read your own work in the process of composition.”

Or how Stephen King puts it, “all novels are letters aimed at one person,” the ideal reader.

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If you missed my writing & marketing tweets and retweets yesterday, here they are again: 

1. Ideal Readers and Why They Are Necessary http://ow.ly/jCZHM via @VeronicaSicoe
2. Take Nothing for Granted http://ow.ly/jD0Bv via Daily Writing Tips
3. Multiple Ebook Platforms: Apple, Kobo, Kindle, Nook, PDF http://ow.ly/jD18p via @FictionNotes
4. What’s Your ‘Vision’ For Your Story? http://ow.ly/jD1mD via @StoryFix
5. Free Web Extension Picks Out The Most Tweetable Sentences From Articles http://ow.ly/jDUCC
6. Why writers should be on Pinterest: http://t.co/SjC82JTI9d @DIYMFA RT @elizabethscraig
7. How to Use the New Pinterest: What Marketers Need to Know http://ow.ly/jDUUe via @smexaminer
8. The Battle to Save Bookstores http://ow.ly/jDVPM via @bookgal
9. 18 Links to Writing & Marketing Blog Posts http://ow.ly/jF1Tw
10. 5 Ways to Write More Effectively: http://t.co/GdhLTjdhw3 @fcmalby RT @elizabethscraig
11. Amazon KDP Select: Is It Worthwhile for Authors? http://ow.ly/jFmWw via @JaneFriedman
12. 4 Essential Elements of a Successful Logline http://ow.ly/jFcpE via @charmaineclancy
13. 10 Tips for Better Business Writing http://ow.ly/jFf7q via Daily Writing Tips
14. How To Use an Ellipsis… Correctly http://ow.ly/jFLYr via @Write_Practice
15. How to get a great cover design – when you don't know what it should be: http://t.co/yOxtqnVOxI @dirtywhitecandy RT @elizabethscraig
16. Should Amazon Change Its Kindle Book Return Policy? http://ow.ly/jFMqN via @GalleyCat
17. 79% Of People 18-44 Have Their Smartphones With Them 22 Hours A Day [STUDY] http://ow.ly/jFP8h
18. How To Add a ‘Send to Kindle’ Button on Your Site http://ow.ly/jFMXp via @Galleycat 

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