I have been asking the same question from myself... "who am I blogging for?" I have days that I feel like no one cares about what I have to say about food or excercise and then I meet a person who says.... "hey I made your x or y recipe and it turned out great" and I realize thats who I write for.... and I do it for me...

I started out blogging for others losing weight. Now I blog for anyone who just wants to go through the ups and downs of life. I don't know a ton about blogging so I try to steer clear of things specifically to bloggers. I read other places like ProBlogger for that ;-)

I follow your other two blogs and somehow missed this one! You must be one busy lady!

Our blog was born out of necessity while on mission in Africa- our audience was our supporters. Since we've returned home it's turned into more of a fun "Pointless" thing for my friends, but still supporters follow, and humanitarian workers and Africans. Having a mixed audience is the biggest struggle I have (and by "audience" I mean a tiny audience where you can hear a pin drop).

I think about it a lot though!

As an English teacher, I'm always telling my students that with everything we write- there is ALWAYS an audience.. even if it's us a few years down the road, or our idea of our grandchildren reading... We never write for nothing.

I struggled with "audience" at the beginning and that's why I ended up with so many blogs... a gardening/backyard blog, my company blog, women & careers blog, and now (thanks to you!) a healthy diet blog.

Now I struggle with staying organized and finding time! LOL!

I blog for myself, family and friends. I love when I see people later and they are excited they were mentioned in a post.

My blog really is for people who want to make healthy meals, but need some new food ideas. I don't talk much about blogging at all, and I don't think that many bloggers are in my (very small) audience. But I do know that I have a few friends/readers who love the recipes they see, but say they don't actually try them - and I wonder how my blog can help them push through the obstacles to preparing good food. That's one of my goals.

I blog for whoever wants to read, but more so for myself. It's a record for me to look back on and a great outlet to get out my thoughts.

I do consider that my grandma reads my blog when sharing what I consider "secrets" but I don't write it for her. :)

Probably because I'm a writer professionally, i do think about my audience pretty often. My audience is women, not young, not old. Maybe 25-50. I write for them, because that's who I feel I can relate to. These are women struggling with weight, with issues of love, sex, and marriage/divorce. Those are all things I go through myself, so that's who I write for and that seems to be exactly the population of my readership.

My blog started out, though, as more of a food blog. Overtime, I realized that wasn't really me. The moment I began to write like "me," my readership grew and it's been growing ever since. It's that whole "be true to yourself" thing. It really works. ;)

Its funny you ask because I started my blog as private but always wrote as if someone was reading it. Since I always posted as if someone was reading it, the transition from private to public was not hard at all!

Rachel

Obviously not. Just look at the crazy junk I post.