Readers, Characters and Word Choices – Keeping Them All in Mind

Readers, Characters and Word Choices – Keeping Them All in Mind

Last time, I talked about balancing your writing for yourself and your readers, and I discussed some reader “complaints” that authors have to think about.

Today, it’s about word choices and what your readers are bringing to the table. We all come from different backgrounds, have different life experiences, different knowledge in our “memory banks.”

On a very basic level writing is all about word choices. Writers are tasked with...