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As much as I like your story, there are times when you go off in “left field”and lost me. The characters are set off by the slightest things, and immediately start on 5 page monologues in which the topic changes constantly. I understand that you are trying to give needed insight into the lives and personalities of your way you describe different details in themselves are really quite interesting. However, too much detail takes away from your story. In the future, please find a balance so that you’re not losing your audience in the process.
No.
I’d be lying like a cheap rug if I said I didn’t love readers and write things in the hopes that people will see, enjoy, and respond to them. I do, and I wallow in reviews of any kind like a pig in slop.
But here’s the thing: I don’t write for you. I write for me, because it makes me happy and gets me out of bed and keeps me from giving up. I write because I want to, and if I spent time worrying about everything that might drive a reader away, then I would never write anything. So, if I want to write five-page monologues of digression, I will. Because the story is mine. You don’t have to read it, but don’t dictate to me how the story should go if it wants to hold your interest. I care, yes, but it’s never going to be my primary concern, and we’re both going to be disappointed.
Don’t like my story? Hit the back button. There are millions more from which to choose. But you don’t get to decide how mine is told.
No.
I’d be lying like a cheap rug if I said I didn’t love readers and write things in the hopes that people will see, enjoy, and respond to them. I do, and I wallow in reviews of any kind like a pig in slop.
But here’s the thing: I don’t write for you. I write for me, because it makes me happy and gets me out of bed and keeps me from giving up. I write because I want to, and if I spent time worrying about everything that might drive a reader away, then I would never write anything. So, if I want to write five-page monologues of digression, I will. Because the story is mine. You don’t have to read it, but don’t dictate to me how the story should go if it wants to hold your interest. I care, yes, but it’s never going to be my primary concern, and we’re both going to be disappointed.
Don’t like my story? Hit the back button. There are millions more from which to choose. But you don’t get to decide how mine is told.
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