Dr. John A. King weighs writing for yourself against writing for an audience. He works in fiction, memoir, biohacking, and trauma, and argues that the best work comes from internal drive, not chasing what the market wants.
when you're writing for the joy of doing what you love to do, then that is a driver that is totally different than writing for an audience. Now I understand that we write for audiences. I understand we write to get our work out, that we want our work to get out is what we want. But are we writing for it to be published or are we writing because we feel we've got something to say? And I think that's really important, even if it's fictional writing or if it's a memoir or if it's writing around a particular topic, say biohacking trauma or doing something like that, which is some of the genres I'm involved in. The end audience has to, you have to be aware of them. But then there's the other side of things is that as an author, as a writer, there's something that I feel really fundamental that's important for me to communicate. And that's actually why I write.
