So you experience the oddity

[hmmnmm]

of a couple readers you've - to your complete surprise - managed to attract, and who let you know they are following some of your work. What a great feeling. You begin to feel that alien throb of confidence.

But then...

 

[Ǽltya]

Yes?

*perks ears*

 

[only_more_so]

of a couple readers you've - to your complete surprise - managed to attract, and who let you know they are following some of your work. What a great feeling. You begin to feel that alien throb of confidence.

But then...

You hit a dry spell and can't seem to write the next chapter?

 

[hmmnmm]

you decide to do a make-it-up--as-you-go-along-series.
but then...
you take it into a direction that those few precious readers respectfully voice a tinge of distaste for, and there's more to come, already written. You can imagine if they didn't care for That part, they will likely not care for This part. They may abandon you.

 

[Ǽltya]

Hmmm... Decisions, decisions...

Fuck 'em, it's your imagination... or... start from the last place they approved of and go in a different direction.

Your choice. I say fuck 'em.

 

[oggbashan]

of a couple readers you've - to your complete surprise - managed to attract, and who let you know they are following some of your work. What a great feeling. You begin to feel that alien throb of confidence.

But then...

You write something different and piss them off...

Og

 

[fieryjen]

The only odd thing that's happened to me was an anonymous feedback that was very complimentary towards one of my stories (I really appreciated this particular feedback, actually), but the person stated that they did not like another of my stories, because they thought the main character was not sympathetic in the least.

That was the one story where I pretty much based the main character on myself. Damn.

 

[rgraham666]

I just write what I wanna write.

If they have a problem with it, it's their problem.

Luckily most of my readers are as omnivorous in their reading habits as I am in my writing.

 

[hmmnmm]

Oh but I don't wish to fuck anyone - except in the good ways - but different people like their fuckings differently. Some people love surprises sprung on them. Others less.

you do wonder if it was the events written of, or the flavor of the prose or a combination that snagged anyone at all, in the first place (preferably I suppose the combo).

Meaning: I guess you just hope that the way distasteful sections are written will somehow forgive the distasteful sections themselves, and when it gets back to the more palatable, it will pleasure their buds all the more?

 

[hmmnmm]

I just write what I wanna write.

Or that.

 

[only_more_so]

you decide to do a make-it-up--as-you-go-along-series.
but then...
you take it into a direction that those few precious readers respectfully voice a tinge of distaste for, and there's more to come, already written. You can imagine if they didn't care for That part, they will likely not care for This part. They may abandon you.

Don't write wrong. If your story has a direction you follow that direction. If you go against the direction you want the story to go, you will not write it as well and your dislike for the new direction will probably show through.

 

[Oblimo]

But then...

Your fans kidnap you and hold you hostage on a desert island where they act out all their favorite stories of yours, starring you.

 

[hmmnmm]

Your fans kidnap you and hold you hostage on a desert island where they act out all their favorite stories of yours, starring you.

You mean you as in me or you as in you in general - the you of them?

Such a drastic predicament as that is not a concern, thank goodness - but that's a heck of an idea.
What if they did it word for word? What if they included the typos? What if they subjected their victim to the run-ons? The metaphors? Oh think of it! The beaches prosed purple!

 

[AvoidingRealWork]

I just write what I wanna write.

If they have a problem with it, it's their problem.

Effin' A.

I need to stop paying so much attention to my scores and just do what I want. Screw 'em .

 

[hmmnmm]

You write something different and piss them off...

Og

Yeah.
In this case the difference being a tale mostly light and harmless and frolicsome and fun, takes a momentary darker turn - the review has been more of a mildly disappointed reaction than seriously pissed off. It can only be hoped that they will trust the guide to lead them safely through the dark passages, back into the fields to frolic beneath a sky where the sun wears a perpetual smiley.