Forget that audience…

“Know your audience” is an adage that might work for Hillary Clinton when deciding to charge $33,000 per plate at a Hollywood A-listers’ campaign financing dinner (just more one-percenters in Hillary’s camp, but even Clooney said $33K was obscene), but it’s not a tactic that’s any use to a storyteller pushing her or his stories. Here’s much better advice for writers: just tell the story you’re itching to tell and do it well. While following either piece of advice doesn’t guarantee that Field...