Who Do You Write For?

It's in the title - when you sit down to write a post, who is it for? 

I had a conversation with friend of the blog Weird Writer (Roll To Doubt) today and it got me curious what others think:

I think I write for my younger self - it's why most of this is pretty in-depth theory. I first discovered OSR TTRPGs when I was about 16 or 17 with Into the Odd. The book has great advice, and I heard it but I didn't listen to it. I was at this robotics competition in upstate Arizona running a poorly adapted Tomb of the Serpent Kings I had made on the bus the way there. I ran the game on the crowded floor for a group of four or five people I don't really talk to anymore in between the hours-long wait between competition rounds. The environment was loud, I had to shout, my voice cracked often. The game ended unceremoniously when the bell rang and we had to go up and lose our competition. 

I remember being horribly anxious but something kept drawing me back. I suppose that's why I write the way I do - why I focus on theory and process and structure. While the experience sounds (and was) glorious, a good game benefits from a sense of structure. Otherwise it's just a passtime. Although, who is to say that a passtime isn't just as valid? This is a social activity first and foremost, after all.

I want to hear your answer in the comments or on your own blogs. 

Who do you write for? 

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