Audience?

[NoJo]

I know this thread will be deja vu for a lot of you (I've been here over 14 years so it certainly is for me) -- Can't be bothered with turning this into a poll:


When you upload stories here:

Do you write to get "someone like you" off?

Or do you write to get yourself off, mainly?

Or are you a "pro" who's trying to write what sells?

I'm definitely the first of these types

 

[sr71plt]

Two is necessary for me, but so are one and three, just to a bit lesser extent.

 

[TxRad]

I write to get the crowd out of my head.

 

[NoJo]

I hear ya. All of ya

 

[MLClifton]

...............

 

[SusanJillParker]

I know this thread will be deja vu for a lot of you (I've been here over 14 years so it certainly is for me) -- Can't be bothered with turning this into a poll:


When you upload stories here:

Do you write to get "someone like you" off?

Or do you write to get yourself off, mainly?

Or are you a "pro" who's trying to write what sells?

I'm definitely the first of these types

When not writing a story for a fan who paid me to write their story and/or sexual fantasy, I write what I think will get me attention to sell more stories.

Once in a while, I'll write a 'Eureka' story that suddenly just hit me.

Being that I don't write pornography but erotica, I never write to get myself or anyone else off. I write to tell a story.

 

[Hypoxia]

Nobody writes unless they must.

Excreting words is a bodily function.

Robert Frost would send visitors from his office by saying,

"Excuse me. I must let a poem."

Writing is like farting; if you don't, you explode.

 

[NoJo]

I don't get the "get me attention" - so the stories are mainly promotion for further stories?

The "getting off", I think, is an important part of erotica, otherwise it's just writing about sex, with the aim being to entertain rather than arouse. When I'm not writing satire, most of my stories are actually about power or desire or identity -- they're not even about sex per se.

 

[NoJo]

Nobody writes unless they must.

Excreting words is a bodily function.

Robert Frost would send visitors from his office by saying,

"Excuse me. I must let a poem."

Writing is like farting; if you don't, you explode.

I think Balzac's metaphor is more apt for me - He famously said "There goes another novel" whenever he had just had an orgasm

 

[NicoleZ]

Of course it is a bit of all three, but! The most important aspect to me is that I stretch myself as a writer and that what I write touches or affects people, even if it does not always please them! The very worst thing that could happen would be to find that like some "successful writers" as measured by consistent high scoring entries, I have become trapped in a formula and write the same story, over and over again, year in year out. I certainly understand why Conan Doyle killed Sherlock Holmes!

 

[NOIRTRASH]

I write to master writing problems that come along. I'm over feedback and comments. I don't give a fart what readers think. I rarely get comments, and I leave the scorecard ON to test my hunch the total score will rise above 4 after TEX and PRETEND PILOT stop the one-bombing. So far scores recover.

 

[SusanJillParker]

I don't get the "get me attention" - so the stories are mainly promotion for further stories?

The "getting off", I think, is an important part of erotica, otherwise it's just writing about sex, with the aim being to entertain rather than arouse. When I'm not writing satire, most of my stories are actually about power or desire or identity -- they're not even about sex per se.

When a fan likes a story that I've written he or she may hire to write their story.

This happens a lot with incest stories. Seemingly everyone has a mother/son, father/daughter, aunt/nephew, sister/brother, or cousin story that they want to write.

Being that I routinely write in nearly every category, my stories are an advertisement to what I can write.

Hopefully someone will read what I've written and will want their own custom story.

 

[NoJo]

When a fan likes a story that I've written he or she may hire to write their story.

This happens a lot with incest stories. Seemingly everyone has a mother/son, father/daughter, aunt/nephew, sister/brother, or cousin story that they want to write.

Being that I routinely write in nearly every category, my stories are an advertisement to what I can write.

Hopefully someone will read what I've written and will want their own custom story.

I think you mean everyone has a mother/son, father/daughter, aunt/nephew, sister/brother, or cousin they'd like to fuck. But I get it now

 

[KayceeCharles]

I have a bit of ADHD in that I tend to get interested on one project at a time and obsesses over it for weeks. Right now I'm in my writing phase (why couldn't this wait until NANOWRIMO...)

I write these to explore my sexuality and to improve my writing. I have a very bad case of tense-shifting and occasionally, POV shifting as I self-rewrite a lot and often there are seams in my rewrites that really need an editor to smooth over.

I wanted to write action scenes, but I forced myself to write romance as I need better character conflicts and emotional turmoil. Once I master those I think I can manage other scenes better.

I've been wanting to write a novel for a LONG time, but I decided I should stick to something shorter for now until I understand how to plot. I started on something, convinced I had it right this time, then I realized I don't understand my characters that well and should stick to what I know better than some fancy characters I created.

Once upon a time I wanted to adapt novels to screenplay but that kinda died as one of the early phases.

 

[NoJo]

Once upon a time I wanted to adapt novels to screenplay but that kinda died as one of the early phases.

I did that too -- went to screenwiting school and everything. All it taught me in the end is that I'm not a born writer. It got pretty serious for a couple of years, I gave up my job to do it full time.

 

[lovecraft68]

Kind of like TX Rad says I write to get the stories out of my head then figure I may as well have some fun providing like minded people some fun.

That still rings true but along the way I started selling as well so I guess practice has become a reason as well

 

[sr71plt]

I think you mean everyone has a mother/son, father/daughter, aunt/nephew, sister/brother, or cousin they'd like to fuck. But I get it now

I think Freddie means that he's posting to this thread to try to drum up fantasy story buyers in a fantasy market for buying personal stories.

 

[oggbashan]

I post so that I can get a brief respite from my Muses. They are very demanding ladies and can be temporarily appeased by posting a completed story.

They might give me a few days respite before they start nagging again.

 

[NoJo]

I post so that I can get a brief respite from my Muses. They are very demanding ladies and can be temporarily appeased by posting a completed story.

They might give me a few days respite before they start nagging again.

Queen Victoria used to be my Muse. But then she told me "We are not a muse." So fuck her

 

[oggbashan]

Queen Victoria used to be my Muse. But then she told me "We are not a muse." So fuck her

Queen Victoria almost certainly didn't say that.

She was frequently amused.

 

[SikFuk]

I don't write to get anyone off, myself included. I just write about scenarios that pop into my head and won't leave. I do envision my stories as little movies - the kind of movies most people would find disgusting. I revel in disgust. Disgust is my escape from the disappointments that shape our lives. Much of that disgust stems from a miserable high school experience marked by missed opportunities and rejection. A therapist would probably say I'm still working through all that, and they'd probably be right. At my age, that's actually funny.

 

[Haulover]

Queen Victoria almost certainly didn't say that.

She was frequently amused.

LOL

 

[Hypoxia]

Okay, mea culpa -- I *do* write for audiences, in genres I don't go out of my way to read. I write variously to please or shock likely readers. I *do* get off on writing those stories, and I enjoy rereading them because I'm so clever, but I'm not necessarily my own audience -- those aren't my strokers.

Yes, scenarios ooze from my head. Yesterday saw me drive a long way with a DVR in my hand dictating the basis of what should be a hot tale, hot even for me. I couldn't stop the flow. I transcribed 1600 words and will flesh that out to maybe 10k words / 3 LIT pages. And I'm sure the intended audience will eat it up too. Wins all around.

Sometimes audiences need to be challenged as well as pandered. I'm up for that.

 

[sr71plt]

Sometimes audiences need to be challenged as well as pandered. I'm up for that.

There isn't just one audience. You're probably usually doing both of those things across the greater spectrum of readers.

 

[Kimikimidoll]

I write to let all the thoughts out of my head. Audience beware.
Once the skeleton is laid out, I flesh it out, taking my time, and try to make the language fluid, so the reader doesn't get bored by details (unless the detail is important somehow).
I have a normal vocabulary range and attention span. I assume everyone else does too. So I try not to go beyond that.