I love this! That's true guidance right there! When I'm really in my zone, the same rings true for me. I'm like "where did that come from?" Gotta love intuition!
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Re: Do you write what you want or what others want?
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100 percent agree! Write for your own enjoyment--other's appreciation is just an added bonus!
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May I ask what YA book you're referring to? And... The Thorn Birds is your favorite book? I just read that last fall, and loved it! Great literary taste!zeldas_lullaby wrote: ↑25 Apr 2015, 00:55 I write what I want. If I were to "sell-out," so to speak, I'd write an angsty YA book about a heroine who feels that no one understands her. Oh, and she has a supernatural/psychic ability, but instead of appreciating it, she feels like a freak because of it. Oh, and she meets a guy and they fall in love within two days, even though he's a letch. (But he's really good looking, and he smells like "boy!") Oh, and there are snobby bee-yatches at her school and hunky jocks with bad attitudes. Oh, and she has to figure out which student is the psycho killer, but she only uses her psychic powers, like, one time in the whole book. Oh, and the ending is entirely unbelievable--just thrown in there because someone had to be the bad guy.
Huh. Thanks for asking that question--apparently I needed to blow off some steam.
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On almost every writing advice page, people say "Write what you want to write because you can't please everyone and it's not fun to try either" and I agree with that.
Usually, you've got way more fire when you work on something you want to do instead of working on something you are assigned or otherwise obligated to do.
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