Grace Battista wrote:
>I never really think about my reader since only a chosen few would read my stories so I go with what I feel is right. Anything that will entertain me is my motto. Yes I know I'm very egoistic *grins*
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>So is that all so bad? Should I change? *cries and runs away*
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Apart from a few folks nobody reads my stuff
either so you're not alone there.
And you are _absolutely_ correct in going with what
you feel is right in a story. It's your story you
are free to tell it your way. Now when someone or
ideally more than one person points out the same
thing that strikes them as "wrong" then you probably
should go back and try to see it from their side.
If the change they suggest or the flaw they find makes
sense to you then go ahead and change it--but only
if you want to.
The thing about writing is that you're always learning little ways to make it better so just because someone has written 100 stories to your 10 it doesn't necessarily mean that what they say is _the way it has to be_.
You get that a lot in the romance writing field their way or no way.
Yeah well my first book broke a whole mess of "their rules" but a
major publisher still liked it enough to buy. Of course
they rejected all but one thing since then but such is
life in the big city I guess.
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Barbara Sheridan
http://www.barbarasheridan.net