With almost every book I've written, my secret target audience is the young therapist. In this way, I am staying in my professorial role; I'm writing teaching stories and teaching novels.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I'm a compulsive storyteller, an avid reader, and have always nurtured the secret goal of spending my life as a writer.
My seventeen years of teaching inform my sense of audience in every line I write.
I'm a therapist and that fascinates people because they think I carry secrets.
Somewhere in this process, I begin reading and showing my book to my audience. When I say my audience, I mean a single imaginary child who is a blend of myself as a young person, the students in my wife's classroom of first- through third-graders, and the students from two classrooms I visit regularly in the Bronx, New York.
Til 1983, I wrote primarily for other psychologists and expected that they would be the principal audience for my book.
I wrote my first 30 books as a teacher. I would read to my classes, and they'd give me feedback. I was trying to role model.
I don't ever write with a particular audience in mind. I just write books that please me.
My writing is a very authentic journey of discovery. I'm going out there to learn who I am. My readers, consequently, take the same journey as my protagonist.
I teach for the Book Trust, which promotes reading and writing with children.
I still keep thinking someone will penetrate my guilty secret - that I have been masquerading as a writer all these years while all I was really doing was enjoying myself, pursuing my passion.
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