Audience Appeal

[sarillia]

How 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.

Comments

[sarillia]

Haha, that seems to be the consensus among people I talk to: "I love your ideas and you obviously know your grammar at least".

Thanks.

I know what you mean about sometimes bowing to preferences even though you know it is just a preference. I have one story I'd like to write about my take on the vampire-werewolf war but I know a lot of people are sick of that so I've been shuffling that idea into the "just for me" pile and if I get to it at all it will be much later than it would have been otherwise. I'm not too upset about that though. I have plenty of other ideas. I was working on another eight of them over the last couple days. I love the planning stage so much.

And now I'm just rambling.

[badass_tiger]

Oh? Well perhaps I should reword that: If you suck, you'll always have great friends to help you improve! Hehe. I wish you luck in getting your ideas off the ground.