SusanJillParker
I'm 100% woman
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- Oct 29, 2011
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Obviously, sadly, and unfortunately, being that Literotica is more a pornographic story site than it is an erotic story site, perhaps this is the wrong site to write what I write.
As everyone who reads what I write must know, I'm big on character development.
I want to know what makes people do the things that they do. A reason for everything, perhaps I go overboard in psycho analyzing my characters to expose their motivations.
Seemingly, those who read stories here don't care why a woman has sex with younger men, with her son, or with dozens of men, they just want to read about her having sex. Even though I've been told that I need to keep my audience in mind when writing and to write for my audience, I'm happier and more fulfilled as a writer when not writing for my audience but for myself.
I wonder what audiences JK Rowling and Stephen King had in mind when they wrote their best selling stories. I suspect that neither author was thinking about their audiences. I suspect that both authors thought more about their characters than their audiences.
I write for my audience plenty enough when writing stories that are commissioned for me to write. Yet, it's frustrating to see the stories of writers who don't have a clue how to write a story earn better scores than my better written stories earn. Nonetheless, I don't write for scores, I write what I must, need, and want to write.
I watched the biography of JK Rowling. Interesting stuff. When I look at her, I see her pain. Even when she's happy, she looks sad. I can feel her pain. I guess money doesn't make anyone happy. Yet, I'd rather be miserable with money than to be miserable without money (lol).
Oddly enough, she was rejected as many times as Stephen King was rejected when he wrote Carrie. When even the publishers don't know what will sell, how are writers supposed to know (lol)? How are writers supposed to write for their audiences when we don't even know who our audiences are?
I suspect that JK and King had no idea that their books would skyrocket in the way that they have. Instead of writing for their audiences, instead of writing for fame and fortune, they just wrote, and that's what I do and have done.
As everyone who reads what I write must know, I'm big on character development.
I want to know what makes people do the things that they do. A reason for everything, perhaps I go overboard in psycho analyzing my characters to expose their motivations.
Seemingly, those who read stories here don't care why a woman has sex with younger men, with her son, or with dozens of men, they just want to read about her having sex. Even though I've been told that I need to keep my audience in mind when writing and to write for my audience, I'm happier and more fulfilled as a writer when not writing for my audience but for myself.
I wonder what audiences JK Rowling and Stephen King had in mind when they wrote their best selling stories. I suspect that neither author was thinking about their audiences. I suspect that both authors thought more about their characters than their audiences.
I write for my audience plenty enough when writing stories that are commissioned for me to write. Yet, it's frustrating to see the stories of writers who don't have a clue how to write a story earn better scores than my better written stories earn. Nonetheless, I don't write for scores, I write what I must, need, and want to write.
I watched the biography of JK Rowling. Interesting stuff. When I look at her, I see her pain. Even when she's happy, she looks sad. I can feel her pain. I guess money doesn't make anyone happy. Yet, I'd rather be miserable with money than to be miserable without money (lol).
Oddly enough, she was rejected as many times as Stephen King was rejected when he wrote Carrie. When even the publishers don't know what will sell, how are writers supposed to know (lol)? How are writers supposed to write for their audiences when we don't even know who our audiences are?
I suspect that JK and King had no idea that their books would skyrocket in the way that they have. Instead of writing for their audiences, instead of writing for fame and fortune, they just wrote, and that's what I do and have done.
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