Writing is Courting

Writing is just like courting the woman of your dreams. You try to find the right words, the right phrases, the right idioms, the right rhythm of ideas and meaning.
Sometimes, the words don’t turn out the way we mean or intend them to be. You try to speak the right words and often end up conveying the wrong message; and thus, the woman leaves you. And you find yourself back in square one on the dating game.
That is writing. You can never court the right words all the time. But you can at least try knowing who it is you are courting those words for.
Really, knowing the audience is the beginning of writing for understanding. It is the beginning of really taking a concept and expressing it to another in ways so clear no one can misunderstand. That, after all, is the end goal of writing: to express and to make understood, and to be understood so clearly the misunderstanding itself vanishes.
The more a writer knows about the audience, the more can he write and be understood. It is really just like courting. The more you know, the more chances you have of winning the woman of your dreams. So it is with audiences.