How do you write what people actually want to read?
For a start, I’d take out the filler word actually.
Then, unless I’m writing for a particular audience, I write for myself.
If I’m interested, curious, amused, angry, puzzled or moved by it, there is at least a chance somebody else will be too.
Perhaps that is the trick. Know your reader when you have one. When you don’t, write to the most demanding reader you know: yourself.
I should cut the dull bits, but don’t. It amuses me to read in my teenage diary when I write when I woke up, or had a bath.
When I’m ’in the flow,’ I write as I wrote letters: a heart to heart to one person.
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