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mare:
Do you ever let peer pressure effect your writing? For instance, if you plan on killing someone off in one of your stories and all your readers keep saying "I hope you don't kill him/her off" do you find yourself sticking to your guns and not straying from your original plan or do you cave and do what your readers want you to do?

Also, how does your feedback influence what you write if at all? (Changing a genre to fit with the popularity of what people seem to want to read, or lack of feedback = lack of updates)

How thin or thick skinned are you when it comes to what other people say reguarding your writing or even talking about your genre in general? do you feel like you can handle it or does it make you stray from writing?

Just some topics I thought of while slowly melting away in my bed last night lol

Hope this will spark another interesting conversation like the one that happened in the romance thread. Be honest as well! Nothing irks me more than people who pretend that some things don't bother them when we all know otherwise! lol

Discuss! :)

FrickingKaos:
I never do what the readers want me to do, because the readers will never be satisfied with the outcome. People change how they feel many times while reading. As for the feedback thing...it diacourages me a little when a chapter I am excited about gets none....not gonna lie. But lack of feedback has never kept me from updating. I am not gonna sit here and lie....it bothers me some, not as much as it used to, but it does bother me. Not sure I should feel embarrassed by this or not.

Sakabelle:
I always stick with my plan. It may not be my original plan, but if anyone is going to change the way the story goes, it's the characters not the readers. It has bothered some of my readers, but what can you do? It's my story and there would be no point in writing it if I didn't stay true to myself.

Tracy, I don't think you should feel embarassed by getting discouraged a little by lack of feedback. However I think that if you're not getting feedback the worst thing you can do is stop writing! I think if you continue to write you'll continue to develop your skills and more people will want to read your writing. Which I know you already do because you are always on most recent! :)

RokofAges75:
Do you ever let peer pressure effect your writing?
No.  I never post a story without knowing how it will end, and I almost always stick to the ending I envisioned at the beginning of the story.  The only exception would be, like Steph said, if the characters change the direction of the story.  If my original ending wouldn't fit, then I'd have to change it, but I would never do so just to please readers.  I write what I want, knowing it will have an audience of people who like the same thing, and while I take feedback seriously and will always consider ideas or suggestions, I have to stay true to my own vision.

Also, how does your feedback influence what you write if at all?
Sometimes I do get ideas from comments readers make to me, or sometimes their reviews help clarify something in a character I wasn't sure of myself, so I think feedback can be influential in that way.  Does it dictate what I write, though?  No.  Like I said, I wouldn't change the direction of a story just to please readers.  Genre-wise, I write what I feel like writing.  I've written enough drama/romances to know those tend to be the most popular of the stories I write.  Luckily, that's my favorite genre combination, so it works out well.  I know I won't get as much feedback for my suspense, action, horror stuff, and that's okay.  That's why I write a variety.

How thin or thick skinned are you when it comes to what other people say reguarding your writing or even talking about your genre in general? do you feel like you can handle it or does it make you stray from writing?
I would love to say I'm so thick-skinned that nothing bothers me, but that's not totally true.  I'm certainly not thin-skinned enough to stop writing or even threaten to stop because not everyone likes my work or my genre.  But things do get to me sometimes.  It's never fun when a story you've put a ton of time and effort into and are really proud of gets ripped to shreds.  I can't say I don't let that bum me out, but I definitely don't let it hold me back or stop me from writing.  I just keep writing what I want, knowing that while it won't have universal popularity, some readers will like it, and that's all that matters.

Carter-Orange:
Do you ever let peer pressure effect your writing? For instance, if you plan on killing someone off in one of your stories and all your readers keep saying "I hope you don't kill him/her off" do you find yourself sticking to your guns and not straying from your original plan or do you cave and do what your readers want you to do?
No, I write what I want and usually know where my story is going and how it will end.  We can't please everyone!

Also, how does your feedback influence what you write if at all? (Changing a genre to fit with the popularity of what people seem to want to read, or lack of feedback = lack of updates)
I've written in a few genres and have noticed some are more popular than others, but I write what I want to write and not to please others.  Of course I do like it if people like what I've written though.  I've had stories with no feedback at all, but that doesn't stop me posting because like I said, I do it to please myself.  I hate when people threaten the readers that unless they get some feedback they'll stop the updates.  That makes me think they are only writing for popularity.

How thin or thick skinned are you when it comes to what other people say reguarding your writing or even talking about your genre in general? do you feel like you can handle it or does it make you stray from writing?
I can handle constructive criticism, but not when someone rips my story to shreds.  I know I'm not the best writer around, but I enjoy it and to me, that's the main thing.  So I'd say I'm medium skinned, lol.  Everyone has opinions about the various genres, not everyone is going to like the same thing, but I wouldn't just write in a particular genre to please people.  I like variety in both what I read and write.

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