Do you write for a gendered audience?

[ronde]

I don't really write for a specific audience but I do try to make my stories at least acceptable to female readers. My male characters tend to be both types A and B, depending upon the story and I usually reverse the same roles for my female characters. A few of my male characters are definitely not pro-feminist, but they do change a little with the right female character.

It seems as if I get more comments from male readers, though it could be that women tend to reply as anonymous rather than with a user name.

 

[stickygirl]

My Little Emily Dreams series is first person present directed at an explicitly male reader (though I have had females say they like some of them), but otherwise, I don’t really have any gender in mind when writing.

I don’t necessarily think of only women readers when writing lesbian for example.

How about you?

Em

Not gender but, to use an old metric, over an IQ of 120

 

[bumpercars]

I don't think about the gender of my readers much, so I suppose not. I've written both male and female POV stories.

Broadly, I feel like sex appeals to most people, so a well-written smut story ought to appeal to most folks too.

 

[AG31]

No. I don't think about the audience at all.

 

[Bamagan]

Wait, are you telling me some of you have audiences?

 

[M_K_Babalon]

I wanna say that I don't. I write for those who are into the fetish in my stories and depending on the lead, could imply such a thing, yet a chick could be just as interested in a male lead story as a guy. I used to think whatever was the main character and focus, was the intended gendered audience, but I'm not so sure about that, anymore, as I've enjoyed books with female lead.

Plus you don't know who's really enjoying it, for example; there was a really great cartoon called Symbionic Titan about a princess, one of her royal guard, and an android sent to earth after her dads advisor or something imprisoned him and started a war. They have this tech where they can generate armor, which they use to fight the things sent after them, and with the android, they and their armor can combine into the Symbionic Titan. The show is mostly them trying to blend and fit in, in high school. You'd think this would be a show for boys, like Gundam, Megas XLR, Big O, and you'd be right. The show was canceled for two reasons; low toy sales, and reports that it was really popular with the unintended audience- girls. To some degree, girls probably like the mech action, but probably liked the bad boy gaurdsman like the boys did, and they liked Tiana, or whatever her name was, for the characterization. It wasn't your typical goofy kiddie cartoon, it actually had substance... if you look past the popular girl falling in love with the android in disguise and twerking for him during a study session. Although that really was part of her character development. And the seemingly growing crush between the other two.

The 750 story I just wrote doesn't even have genders in it. It's about sucking dick and I intended it so that anybody(relatively) could put themselves in either perspective. Is it a woman or guy who's enjoying sucking the dick, is it a woman or guy enjoying their dick sucked? Yes. A story I'm finishing is about a guy who's dating the woman next door, maybe it could be male centric, the, well both to degrees, the incest ones are about both characters, one started out just about the son, the other is about both of them from the start, and to his cousin(technically niece probably, but cousin is easier) to some degree, as their relationship develops along his and his moms, and hers and his moms. I think it's less easier to gender focus a story with differing perspectives, even if it's unintended, ergo reader assumed.

 

[M_K_Babalon]

Wait, are you telling me some of you have audiences?

 

[LonRivers]

I write a story for the story. I don't write for a reader specifically. The readers will decide for themselves what they like regardless of who the story may be geared towards. Everyone is different. Too different in my opinion to single out or narrow down. So I just write and hope that the readers enjoy what I have to offer.

 

[TheRedChamber]

Honestly, I write stories which arise from fantasies and these fantasies and the feeling of what works and what doesn't is male. I tend not to be overly porny for the most part and there's a fair bit of romance in my longer stories, so there may well be overlap with what (certain) women want. But it'd be foolish to write anything on the basis of 'I don't find this hot, but I betcha chicks are going to love it'. A lot of my stories do couple a remarkable woman with a blander male character.

 

[MyBareTorso]

Ideally, I'd just like as many people as possible to read my stories! Male, female, gay, straight...I welcome all manner of eyes on my sordid little tales...