Thought For The Day

[dr_mabeuse]

Writers are no better than the people who read them.

In Other Words: You'll never be better than your readers' capacity to understand you.

Keep that in mind next time you're reading your PC's.

--Zoot

 

[sincerely_helene]

Writers are no better than the people who read them.

In Other Words: You'll never be better than your readers' capacity to understand you.

Keep that in mind next time you're reading your PC's.

--Zoot

 

[impressive]

Writers are no better than the people who read them.

In Other Words: You'll never be better than your readers' capacity to understand you.

Keep that in mind next time you're reading your PC's.

--Zoot

No, keep that in mind the next time you submit a story to this audience.

 

[Dar~]

Yes, but the audience can be a varied and multitudinous thing.

 

[impressive]

Yes, but the audience can be a varied and multitudinous thing.

I agree -- as can be the reasons for putting work here.

 

[gauchecritic]

Writers are no better than the people who read them.

In Other Words: You'll never be better than your readers' capacity to understand you.

Keep that in mind next time you're reading your PC's.

--Zoot

Does the fact that nobody understands or can reasonably follow my work mean that I'm better than them? I can't see it somehow.

Although I actually mentioned this very thing in another thread. I enjoy 'getting' other's references or themes etc, it gives me a feeling of camaraderie. It means I'm not a reader I'm a part of the writing process.

 

[Dar~]

I think with an outlet like Lit, that the audience is so wide and so variegated, that searching for the audience rather than just writing what our characters want us to write. the correct audience will find it. Lit isn't a specific enough venue for writing targeted than audience rather than writing for just the love of writing.

 

[R. Richard]

Writers are no better than the people who read them.

In Other Words: You'll never be better than your readers' capacity to understand you.

Keep that in mind next time you're reading your PC's.

--Zoot

However, we Literotica writers must strive to UPGRADE the Literotica readers! It's a tough job, but somebody has to do it.

 

[Lee Chambers]

However, we Literotica writers must strive to UPGRADE the Literotica readers! It's a tough job, but somebody has to do it.

Doesn't Lit have tech support and software patches that they can download instead?

 

[CeriseNoire]

Writers are no better than the people who read them.

In Other Words: You'll never be better than your readers' capacity to understand you.

Keep that in mind next time you're reading your PC's.

--Zoot

Even when reading those PCs that have nothing to do with their understanding? Or with the story for that matter?

 

[Boxlicker101]

I think with an outlet like Lit, that the audience is so wide and so variegated, that searching for the audience rather than just writing what our characters want us to write. the correct audience will find it. Lit isn't a specific enough venue for writing targeted than audience rather than writing for just the love of writing.

Actually, I target people who like to read smut. I try to target women, to the degree that I can, but I don't know how successful I am.

 

[English Lady]

However, we Literotica writers must strive to UPGRADE the Literotica readers! It's a tough job, but somebody has to do it.

I really hope that's sarcasm or it's really kind of rude.

I was a reader for a long, long time before i started submitting, so I know I'm on a level with my readers, because I was and am one.

 

[hmmnmm]

A wise thought.
I'll also chime in that it really depends.
If we're talking strictly Literotica story/readership, then this thought bears a lot of truth. If I want the reader to see (or even feel) that the hero is ejaculating or about to ejaculate, or the hero is in activity that will directly lead to his ejaculation, but they don't see it or feel it, then...? But maybe one reader sees it, two others don't... if none of them see it? I need to try and understand why they didn't and work to fix what hinders them from seeing or feeling it.

On the other hand, if as a reader I read a page of Faulkner and you ask me what happened in the narrative, I probably would have little or no idea. But I'd continue reading simply because I enjoy the way it is written, or maybe I appreciate that he's making me work as hard as he may have worked. Also, in this case, I'm talking about a physical book that I can put down, go do something else, then come back and continue. Makes the work a little easier. A computer screen is way different. Too much work and deciphering expenditure, too much staring, can give you a headache, and rightly piss you off.

If I am in one of 'those moods' and I peruse Lit stories for the sake of pure pleasure, I want something pretty clear and unencumbered by weedy descriptives or narrative. On the other hand, if it looks like something more 'literary' and lengthy, I'd just print it out and read it as hard copy, something I can chew on at leisure.

So it all depends.

 

[NoJo]

Writers are no better than the people who read them.

In Other Words: You'll never be better than your readers' capacity to understand you.

Keep that in mind next time you're reading your PC's.

--Zoot

God that's depressing.

 

[dr_mabeuse]

God that's depressing.

Ain't it though?

What put me in mind of it was a comment I got on a story that's in the BDSM section. A reader said he didn't care for it, but then that's probably because he skipped all the BDSM parts because he really doesn't care for BDSM.

 

[Liar]

So it's not my fault that I suck, but my lousy readers'? That's a relief.

 

[NoJo]

Ain't it though?

What put me in mind of it was a comment I got on a story that's in the BDSM section. A reader said he didn't care for it, but then that's probably because he skipped all the BDSM parts because he really doesn't care for BDSM.

Fucking masochists, they're all alike

 

[Lauren Hynde]

Writers are no better than the people who read them.

In Other Words: You'll never be better than your readers' capacity to understand you.

Keep that in mind next time you're reading your PC's.

--Zoot

But can we be sure that all the people who read (utter the words of) our stories and leave PCs actually read (look at carefully so as to understand the meaning of) our stories, though? Being a reader is more than being able to read.

 

[Boxlicker101]

But can we be sure that all the people who read (utter the words of) our stories and leave PCs actually read (look at carefully so as to understand the meaning of) our stories, though? Being a reader is more than being able to read.

I doubt if anybody has any trouble understandikng mine. The only problem somebody might have would be a reader looking for some underlying meaning.

 

[Stella_Omega]

I doubt if anybody has any trouble understandikng mine. The only problem somebody might have would be a reader looking for some underlying meaning.

I only care about who's laying under whom

 

[starrkers]

I only care about who's laying under whom

Ah, a potential reader of my work!

 

[R. Richard]

Ain't it though?

What put me in mind of it was a comment I got on a story that's in the BDSM section. A reader said he didn't care for it, but then that's probably because he skipped all the BDSM parts because he really doesn't care for BDSM.

And then the reader complained that the story didn't flow, right?

 

[R. Richard]

I really hope that's sarcasm or it's really kind of rude.

I was a reader for a long, long time before i started submitting, so I know I'm on a level with my readers, because I was and am one.

It was intended to be a humerous comment. I had no intent to be rude. If I was rude, I apologize.

 

[NoJo]

I despise all my reader.

 

[damppanties]

I despise all my reader.

Not enough, apparently. You didn't call them vile names.