Reading
through a lot of scripts, I'm never very sure who the story is aimed
at. It's as if the thought of "who is this for" never crossed the
writer's mind. And when I ask, who apart from yourself are you writing
this for, they seldom know how to answer. The usual response, when there
is one, is 'I'm writing for everyone', as if there was an approximate
audience that was going to drop whatever it was doing to pay attention
to someone's else's story simply because someone had taken the time to
write it down on paper. The burden of not knowing who your story is for
is a story killer. And it can't be remedied by glibly assigning a
demographic to what you're writing. It has to be more personal than
that, much more personal. You can't write the blood and the bone and the
heart of a story if you're talking to shadows. - Billy Marshall Stoneking
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