Im not forcing to invite my audience here. Im trying to keep it focused on my interests. I feel that I dont have to worry about boring 90 percent of the audiencebecause [the audience for my blog] self-selected themselves as wanting to read this, I can be much more authentic and much more liberated to talk about what I really want to talk about, rather than trying to anticipate the needs of a scattered, diverse audience like a magazine has.http://www.trcb.com/en-Us60Sat, 26 May 2012 03:17:25 ESTCopyright 2012 Muhammad Yaqoob, TRCB.com All Right Reservedhttp://www.trcb.com/writing-and-speaking/writing/blogs-and-books-are-focused-12008.htm<p>I'm not forcing to invite my audience here. I'm trying to keep it focused on my interests. I feel that I don't have to worry about boring 90 percent of the audience-because [the audience for my blog] self-selected themselves as wanting to read this, I can be much more authentic and much more liberated to talk about what I really want to talk about, rather than trying to anticipate the needs of a scattered, diverse audience like a magazine has.</p><p>By the way, I find blogging ruins me for magazine writing. It's difficult to write for magazines right now, which is ironic given that I'm a magazine editor. It's difficult because magazines are a kind of one-size-fits-all product, and the audience is large, with differing interests. You have to write something that tries to satisfy all of [your readers] or many of them, whereas a blog is very self-selecting. If you're interested in what I have to say, fine. If you're not, that's great-go somewhere else.</p><p>The book is also self-selecting. If you're not interested in the concepts in the book, don't buy it. If you are, I'm going to go deep, and that's great. But books-and blogs-are focused, whereas magazines are not.</p><p>&nbsp;</p>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 01:30:24 ESThttp://www.trcb.com/writing-and-speaking/writing/blogs-and-books-are-focused-12008.htmTRCB.comWriting and Speaking / Writing