Maybe I'm not asking my question properly, or maybe I'm asking a question that makes sense to me but not to you. I'm not asking who will be able to read your journal. I am asking who, at the time you are writing, is in your head as your reader.
When I write, for example, my reader is an abstract entity I think of as my "audience." My audience may have characteristics -- computer literate, interested, smart, general, etc -- but they're never personified.
It doesn't sound like you're writing to your future grown children. ("September 16, 2003: Ah, that's why she was so pissed off in the afternoon.") Are you writing to your future self? Can someone write without thinking about their readers at all?
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When I write, for example, my reader is an abstract entity I think of as my "audience." My audience may have characteristics -- computer literate, interested, smart, general, etc -- but they're never personified.
It doesn't sound like you're writing to your future grown children. ("September 16, 2003: Ah, that's why she was so pissed off in the afternoon.") Are you writing to your future self? Can someone write without thinking about their readers at all?
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