Your audience is one single reader. I have found that sometimes it helps to pick out one person-a real person you know, or an imagined person and write to that one.
John SteinbeckI would like to sit still for a while but I'm restless you know and sitting still is only an ideal like celibacy and complete cleanliness.
John SteinbeckYou're buying years of work, toil in the sun; you're buying a sorrow that can't talk.
John SteinbeckFree men cannot start a war, but once it is started, they can fight on in defeat. Herd men, followers of a leader, cannot do that, and so it is always the herd men who win battles and the free men who win wars.
John Steinbeck