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Question of the Day Part 5
FrickingKaos:
Hands down my favorite Disney movie is The Little Mermaid, and Aladdin is second. I also love Peter Pan.
Carter-Orange:
--- Quote from: mare on August 05, 2012, 05:25:35 PM ---Would you rather know that someone tried your story and didn't like it or would you prefer to just think that people aren't reading it. Also, if someone isn't reading your story, like a friend, do you take it personally? Are you able to separate yourself from your writing without it affecting your relationships with your writer friends? Did that make sense? lol
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I know that not all of my stories are going to appeal, and I completely understand if people don't want to read. I wouldn't read something I wasn't enjoying, no matter who the writer is. But I wouldn't tell them I wasn't enjoying it, I just wouldn't read or review. I don't take it personally and hope friends wouldn't get offended if I didn't read everything of theirs.
RokofAges75:
Why's it so quiet on here this morning?!
Okay, follow up question to the niche one: What's a genre you enjoy reading, but don't think you write well?
For me, it's suspense. I've always enjoyed reading suspenseful stories, mysteries, and thrillers, both in fanfic and in real life, but when I try to write them, I usually end up disappointed by the result. I'm capable of creating suspense by building the tension slowly and that kind of thing, but where I fall flat is usually with the mystery aspect of it or with the characters and their motives. I just don't have a very creative mind when it comes to mysteries. I enjoy reading/watching them, but am terrible at guessing whodunit - if I can guess correctly, then it wasn't a very good mystery, in my mind LOL. But I like to be surprised at the solution, to have my mind blown when I get to the end, and if a mystery doesn't deliver that twist ending, I'm disappointed. So in writing them, I try to have twists for my readers, but I'm not creative enough to make them shocking - they are usually predictable. And character-wise, I have yet to write a believable, three-dimensional villain with a good motive. Dr. Rough in 00Carter has been my favorite villain to write, but he is intentionally over the top - not necessarily believable. Maybe one of these days I will, but for now, I just admire people who can churn out awesome suspense stories that can both surprise and unsettle me.
myconfession:
For the niche thing.....
I like being a niche writer and I'm not ashamed of it. There's just some things I'm not interested in, such as action/adventure or horror/suspense. I don't really watch that movies because they bore me. Romantic comedies/dramas are my thing. It's what I enjoy. If I tried to write something else, it would be forced and I don't think it would be as good as something that I enjoyed writing.
Don't get me wrong, I've tried it... I tried to do a serious straight drama/suspense about a year and a half ago and I couldn't get past chapter 2.
Writing a Disney/BSB thing....
Typically I would say "The Little Mermaid," but since the 45-year-old guy at work (God I have three days left) is OBSESSED with her, I can't look at Ariel the same. So I would say "Enchanted" or "The Princess Diaries." I'm not big on cartoons, even Disney movies. I think "Sleeping Beauty" would be interesting, too.
Knowing someone read it and didn't like my stories or not knowing at all...
I would rather know what they didn't like about it. That's the only way you're going to understand why people don't like you, rather than for stupid reasons that have nothing to do with the stories themselves. And if they had given you a shot back in say '01 and didn't like it, I would like for them to give me a shot now and see if they still don't like it, because people grow up, they learn, their writing changes (especially for me since I have a minor in creative writing now). A lot of people think I'm a bitch and won't give my stuff a chance because of me personally. But it's funny to see on my website people that I know don't like me, even hate me and talk shit about me, coming on to read my stories. That makes me feel good inside.
RokofAges75:
It's funny how some people worry about their friends only reading their stories because they like them as a person, and others worry about people avoiding their stories because they don't like them as a person.
As a writer, is this something you worry about? And as a reader, do writers' personalities or your relationship with them affect which stories you choose to read?
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