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]

It's not really the first draft that I'm worried about. I'm an expert at churning out rough drafts without worrying too much about perfection. I've got about twenty of them finished. But after that I have to start trying to make it Good and that's scary.

[agilebrit]

And see, I'm one of those weirdos who doesn't particularly like the actual writing process but loves doing revisions. Digging into it and figuring out what I was actually trying to say in the thing--and then bringing that to the fore in a way that hopefully isn't anvillicious--is fun for me.

And, again, the only way to get good at it is to buckle down and do it. And you can. *\o/*

[sarillia]

I've been trying to figure out how to get into your mindset but writing new stories is so much easier for me that I'm always tempted to just move on.