Your Audience

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[BlackShanglan]

I assume my audience for anything I write to be generally the world, and to be generally completely uninterested.

My stories do occasionally seem to be read; I assume that they must be read by people who have at least some of my own tastes in writing. I'm awfully glad to know that some readers are out there somewhere, but I look on them as something like the ivory-billed woodpecker: enchanting creatures, delightful even to hear from, but never seen in the flesh and so rare that at any moment they might vanish forever.

Shanglan

 

[Lauren Hynde]

Do you have one?

This is the Internet. You could write shopping lists in Jintishi form and call it porn, and someone, somewhere, would think you're God.

 

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[NoJo]

This is the Internet. You could write shopping lists in Jintishi form and call it porn, and someone, somewhere, would think you're God.

Please, please, send me a link if you find any.

 

[damppanties]

Please, please, send me a link if you find any.

No. We all know what you're going to use it for. Pervert!

 

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[TxRad]

Most writers write for themselves, Readers are just extra spice shall we say. Some spice is good and some spice (Trolls and the always present AnyMouse) are not.

A fan base is nice because it is usual the better of the spice... Some even give you usable advice on improving. In any case its nice to have the ego stroked ever so often.

 

[lesbiaphrodite]

I love having readers who like my work. I also love having readers who hate it. Either way, they're reading me.

I try to keep readers in mind when I'm writing, but TRUTH is more important to me than audience response. I'll still keep writing my own truth till the day I die.

 

[LadynStFreknBed]

Even as a newbie, I seem to have gained an audience. What I get out of having an audience is encouragement to continue, not that I wouldn't write without them.

I always work on improving. Right now, my focus is more on improving my poetry, which in turn, does help my prose too. I also belong to a local writers group that meets twice a month, which is extremely beneficial.

-Sheila

 

[drksideofthemoon]

Do you have one?
Did gaining it boost your confidence?
Or did you already have confidence and you weren't surprised when they came? After you gathered an audience did you continue to work to improve your writing, or did you get lazy?
Did finding your niche and honing your voice in that niche help?

I do have an audience for my series. I don't think it changed my confidence at all.

What it did was put pressure on me to make each chapter as good as I could, and better than the previous effort.

 

[Guest]

Indeed.

My writing has been so sporadic these days. I have received a couple of emails asking about the next chapters in the series.

Pressure, pressure.

On the other hand, I've thought about starting an alt and posting a completely different style of stories on it.

Just a thought.

 

[rgraham666]

Indeed.

My writing has been so sporadic these days. I have received a couple of emails asking about the next chapters in the series.

Pressure, pressure.

On the other hand, I've thought about starting an alt and posting a completely different style of stories on it.

Just a thought.

As long as you give me AVs to drool over, I'm cool with that.

 

[Stella_Omega]

I have some readers that respond to my dyke BDSM;

"WOW that was hot! Write it again, only with boys!"

All it would take would be some find-and-replace, and some re-writing of certain anatomical details...

DP would be a problem.

 

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[Stella_Omega]

Dr. Pepper?

Double Penetration

 

[Lauren Hynde]

In the right hands, a shopping list could be very effective porn.

Or in the left hands, for 8 to 15% of the population.

 

[English Lady]

Well, I guess I have an audience and miracles of miracles they actually pay to read my work, believe me, that's one hell of a revelation and somewhat of a pleasant pressure, too. I do write now with my audience in mind, I have to if I want to get my work published and bought. However, I still write what I want to write and I think I'm lucky that it seems to be the kinda thing that's in demand.

 

[jomar]

No audience that I know of, but I have noticed a difference in readers' expectations when I moved from strokers to a story that actually had a plot.

Actually, now that I think about it, readers do motivate me to try harder, but the excellent authors here on Lit that motivate me more.

 

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[Boota]

I have an audience for my non-erotic writing. My erotic writing here on Lit has lost a lot of people from my inability to find the time to finish what I started. While I enjoy what I post on Lit, the very little writing time I have demands that I spend it writing what I get paid for. That's the audience I should be worried about. But I'm not, really. I write what I want, and if they like what I write they'll buy it. If enough people do it I get to have a career.

If I were writing things that didn't please me, but everyone loved it, I'd only get to have a job that I hated. I've already got one of those.

 

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[English Lady]

Do you feel that writing and posting stories here helped you along to the place you are now?

Yes, most definitely.

 

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