who do you write for?

[nerk]

As much as I'd like to believe the whole "I write for myself" line, I know it isn't true for me. I write for an audience. That's the whole reason I write the stuff down. When it's just for me, I mutter it under my breath as I wander around the bus station begging for spare change.

I like the idea of writing as communication, and communication works best when there's someone receiving as well as transmitting. I love the idea of erotica as a sexual experience. When I write a bit of erotica, I am pretty much trying to hump my reader's brain. I get turned on writing, and I want them to get turned on reading it. If someone thinks it has literary merit on top of that, that's icing on the cake.

When I read a bit of erotica, I want to get turned on. If I read an erotic story that doesn't turn me on, I consider it a failed experience. I want to feel that click between me and the writer when I read erotica, even if the clicks are separated by time and space, and he or she never knows it happened. Just like I want my readers to feel that click when they read my stuff.

That's my rant du-jour.
Thanks
Nerk

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

This is no place for degenerates! So SCRAM!

 

[Kev H]

Oh, this again

As much as I'd like to believe the whole "I write for myself" line, I know it isn't true for me. I write for an audience. That's the whole reason I write the stuff down. When it's just for me, I mutter it under my breath as I wander around the bus station begging for spare change.

I like the idea of writing as communication, and communication works best when there's someone receiving as well as transmitting. I love the idea of erotica as a sexual experience. When I write a bit of erotica, I am pretty much trying to hump my reader's brain. I get turned on writing, and I want them to get turned on reading it. If someone thinks it has literary merit on top of that, that's icing on the cake.

When I read a bit of erotica, I want to get turned on. If I read an erotic story that doesn't turn me on, I consider it a failed experience. I want to feel that click between me and the writer when I read erotica, even if the clicks are separated by time and space, and he or she never knows it happened. Just like I want my readers to feel that click when they read my stuff.

That's my rant du-jour.
Thanks
Nerk

Heh, you sound so simple-minded when it comes to reading. Don't accidentally read any of my stuff.

As for your stated reasons of writing, you could sum it up by saying, "I wanna write stroke," and be done with it. The more experience you gain--if you pay attention--the more you will realize there is no "getting inside the readers' heads." Much less humping them. That's all lip service garbage. They have widely varying perceptions (mental filters) and you will hit some and not others, no matter what you do. Simple as that, so if you want to simply add to the huge pile of stroke material out there, then knock yourself out. No, literally, knock yourself out.

 

[TxRad]

Me....

 

[nerk]

My apologies...

After I knocked myself out, I was a bit disoriented. I got a little confused about your earlier instructions and read some of your stuff.

Now I see why you find the idea of communicating with your readers so objectionable.

Heh, you sound so simple-minded when it comes to reading. Don't accidentally read any of my stuff.

As for your stated reasons of writing, you could sum it up by saying, "I wanna write stroke," and be done with it. The more experience you gain--if you pay attention--the more you will realize there is no "getting inside the readers' heads." Much less humping them. That's all lip service garbage. They have widely varying perceptions (mental filters) and you will hit some and not others, no matter what you do. Simple as that, so if you want to simply add to the huge pile of stroke material out there, then knock yourself out. No, literally, knock yourself out.

 

[nerk]

Me....

yeah, me too

 

[TE999]

Fun. (That's more why I write, but you get the idea...)

 

[Handley_Page]

Fun. (That's more why I write, but you get the idea...)

like wot 'e said.

 

[TheeGoatPig]

I write for me. I post for the reactions from other people.

 

[Boota]

Primarily, I write for me. But since I try to sell books I also write for an audience. But me first. The audience will only get to read what I've written for myself. If they like it I sell some books.

 

[nerk]

I write for me. I post for the reactions from other people.

A very fine distinction, very finely stated.

Thank you.

I must now punish myself for using "very" twice in one sentence without a hint of irony.

 

[CharleyH]

As much as I'd like to believe the whole "I write for myself" line, I know it isn't true for me. I write for an audience. That's the whole reason I write the stuff down. When it's just for me, I mutter it under my breath as I wander around the bus station begging for spare change.

I like the idea of writing as communication, and communication works best when there's someone receiving as well as transmitting. I love the idea of erotica as a sexual experience. When I write a bit of erotica, I am pretty much trying to hump my reader's brain. I get turned on writing, and I want them to get turned on reading it. If someone thinks it has literary merit on top of that, that's icing on the cake.

When I read a bit of erotica, I want to get turned on. If I read an erotic story that doesn't turn me on, I consider it a failed experience. I want to feel that click between me and the writer when I read erotica, even if the clicks are separated by time and space, and he or she never knows it happened. Just like I want my readers to feel that click when they read my stuff.

That's my rant du-jour.
Thanks
Nerk

Nice post. Just got back from an odd vacation and am sun-burnt to hell, but keeping an eye on your rants du-jour ... thought-provoking. Keep 'em up, Nerk!

 

[nerk]

Nice post. Just got back from an odd vacation and am sun-burnt to hell, but keeping an eye on your rants du-jour ... thought-provoking. Keep 'em up, Nerk!

Dammit, now I'm all flustered.

thank you, darlin'

 

[Darkniciad]

I started writing because it's the only creative outlet I have that I'm halfway decent at. I started writing erotica to vent pent up sexual needs. Writing Danica for my girlfriend was what really got me into writing as a regular hobby.

She was the one who encouraged me to post it for more than just her. After that, I had the extra boost from feedback.

It's also my way of getting back into my fantasy world, and sucking others into it as well, since I don't have any players for my old PnP role-playing game any more

I have lots of reasons, and lots of people I write for. Every reason is selfish, so in the end, I write for me -- regardless of the minutia.

 

[bronzeage]

I write for the audience. Sometimes this is only one person, sometimes more. It helps to know there is someone waiting for the next line, page of chapter.

For me, writing is like sex. My partners pleasure and reactions excite me to higher levels.

Writing for myself would just be masturbation. It has its place and function, but doesn't really satisfy the need.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Having no clue who those thousands of people are who wasted time reading my stuff, I can't possibly claim to write for them. I write because I get these headaches, er, I mean ideas and have to do something with them.

 

[glynndah]

Well, there's this one certain guy I imagine reading them...

 

[jomar]

It varies. Sometimes stuff gets stuck in my brain and I have to write a story. Other times a story gets good "reviews" so I write more in that vein to see if I can duplicate the "success." Then other times it's a combination of the two, as my recentish foray in to LW was.

 

[jomar]

Well, there's this one certain guy I imagine reading them...

 

[glynndah]

Oh, how'd you guess it was you?

 

[jomar]

Oh, how'd you guess it was you?

Why, your words spoke to only me.

 

[glynndah]

Why, your words spoke to only me.

I'd like this better without that smilie.

 

[jomar]

I'd like this better without that smilie.

My bad, your edit.

 

[glynndah]

My bad, your edit.

You're sweet, but it really wasn't necessary. I just put my thumb on the screen and *poof* it's gone!

A from the good little witch.

 

[bronzeage]

Well, there's this one certain guy I imagine reading them...

I read the Sleeping Beauty trilogy when it was published under the name of A. N. Roquelaure. She used the pen name because she did not want her father to know she had written something like this.

After his death, she took credit and admitted the books were a gift to her husband. I thought it was a peek into their marriage, as much as for what was described, as for what was left out.