What are some of your writing philosophies?

CurvyLinesEverywhere said:
Don't fall for it, Dickman. As an experienced time traveler, JohnTitor45 knows perfectly well how Time Theft works-- she's just probing for weaknesses before she makes her big play!
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Time Travel and Time Theft are two completely different things as far as I can tell. I'm just concerned about it interfering with my mission. If Dickman is also a time traveler, that could complicate things.
 
gene.sis said:
As I haven't seen any of them, I couldn't even tell you anything from the first or second act. So that's a rather pointless exercise.
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The pointlessness is my point. They're literally being marketed in that blogpost as makeout movies. They're an example of what happens when you write sex and then staple a weak excuse for a story onto the side of it. If you had seen them, flipping channels or browsing through netflix or whatever, you wouldn't remember it, because they did nothing memorable. The entire purpose of the third act is to kill time while half the audience makes out with the other half. Do slightly better than this. That's all I'm asking. Make porn that's better-written than Hollywood-produced excuses for rich kids to dry hump in public.
 
CurvyLinesEverywhere said:
The pointlessness is my point. They're literally being marketed in that blogpost as makeout movies. They're an example of what happens when you write sex and then staple a weak excuse for a story onto the side of it. If you had seen them, flipping channels or browsing through netflix or whatever, you wouldn't remember it, because they did nothing memorable. The entire purpose of the third act is to kill time while half the audience makes out with the other half. Do slightly better than this. That's all I'm asking. Make porn that's better-written than Hollywood-produced excuses for rich kids to dry hump in public.
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Oh... we're talking about writing stories again...
 
Here's my advice:

Write what interests you in the moment you want to write. Don't feel like you have to write things that don't interest you. Write what's fun to you, even if it is weird or doesn't really make sense--don't even really need to explain it, unless you find the explanations fun too (like I do).

After I had been writing here for a little while, it felt like some of my readers wanted some very specific things, with activities or tone or characters or whatever. I tried going along with some of those requests, wasn't really happy with the results or how it seemed to contradict what I wanted my characters to be in exchange for something that a handful of people thought would be sexier, but in the end, those are my least-liked chapters usually. Since it wasn't my best work and I didn't put my all into it, it didn't resonate with nearly anybody other than the requestor. In the end, I found that as long as I stuck with my specific interests even if they flew in the face of convention for the kinks I wrote, I found an audience that enjoyed what I was doing anyway.

Overall, it's a free site and most of us are spending our own time to write these chapters, so what you write should be what you want to write, even if it's not perfect and even if it's not what others are asking for that don't align with what you're looking for yourself.
 
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