Nugget

One of the things about query research is that it can so often yield useful lessons for writing at large.  Says one agent I'm about to hit up:

It's not that you have to write for your audience. But you have to keep your audience in mind. That's a distinction you have to make.

I've written this way since long before I learned how to become "serious" about the craft, and it is amazing how both freeing and disciplined this advice really is.

(The article is good too; I linked to p. 2 because that's whence the quote derives.)