Audience Appeal
Feb. 5th, 2014 04:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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write_awayHow much do the opinions of the potential readers affect your writing?
These thoughts used to never bother me at all because I was the only one who would ever read anything I wrote. But recently I decided that I would like to try to get published after all. Suddenly none of my ideas seem good enough. Every time I think I've got one that will work, I start writing and then have a crisis of confidence, thinking that no one else will like what I'm writing.
I know I should write for myself first and I still have no problem writing something just for me but it would be nice to feel like something I write might be publishable.
These thoughts used to never bother me at all because I was the only one who would ever read anything I wrote. But recently I decided that I would like to try to get published after all. Suddenly none of my ideas seem good enough. Every time I think I've got one that will work, I start writing and then have a crisis of confidence, thinking that no one else will like what I'm writing.
I know I should write for myself first and I still have no problem writing something just for me but it would be nice to feel like something I write might be publishable.
