: Re: Can you go against the Reader-Response? So, as I'm writing, I noticed something I've been subconsciously doing for a while: "Oh, you're concerned about something, guess this is a red-letter

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You can deliver your experience to others, but just like your opinions, others will disagree. My stories occur in a world, and my hero characters express opinions about how the world should be. Many of those are my political opinions, too.

But, I should think it obvious, at least half the world disagrees with me, in some cases 95% disagree with me. I don't care, my heroes are mine, my imagination is mine, my fantasy worlds are mine, and my audience is entertained by that, or they are not. I'll let the market decide.

As it turns out, many people are entertained by my thinking and writing, so that's great. I am intentionally trying to entertain them and craft stories people will like.

Write what is in your imagination, with the intent of entertaining others. If you don't, you are doing something wrong in the writing, so learn to write to entertain others. Learn how to craft stories, and dialogue, and scenes, and descriptions.

I would only worry about how readers will respond to what you write in terms of whether enough of them find it entertaining that they will want to read it. If their response is "This is boring," and putting down the story, either get better, or write for just your own personal entertainment as a hobby, or stop writing and find a different hobby.

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