Popularity vs. Enjoyment

Who You Are As A Writer

Why do you write?

This is a simple question.

Why do you write?

Is it for popularity or is it because you enjoy writing?

One thing for sure is that Exo is the group that most people here write about. One thing for sure is that most of the featured fanfics are related to Exo. I'm not saying that only Exo fanfics get featured but the majority is about Exo or some other new groups that debuted not long ago. So if you want to be popular, you have to write about Exo or the groups that teenagers like right now. I bet you that the majority of the readers here are teenagers. I bet you that.

Do you write because you want readers? You want subscribers? You want comments?

Or is it that you write because you enjoy writing. You enjoy writing about the couple(s) you ship. You want to write a story for the couple(s) you ship. You enjoy surprising your readers and along the way, you are happy as well.

The best feeling is to feel happy about what you have wrote. It may be a sad story you're writing but you are glad that you wrote it. The feeling of finishing a story is one of the feelings that I have yet to feel. I hope that I'll get to feel that feeling soon. My guess is that you'll feeling accomplished with a combination of happiness and sadness. 

Do you write because you want to spread the "(couple name)-ness"? Are you fangirling to the couple moments you are writing about? Do you enjoy what you are writing, be it happy or sad?

 

The bottom line is this. Are you writing for people or are you writing for yourself?

 

My Point of View:

I write people I want to share my crazy imaginary plots or thoughts about the couples that I ship. I write because I ship "them". I don't want to write just because of popularity. I don't want to write about someone I don't like. I want to write because I want to. I love the couple that I'm writing about. I honestly, just want to write about my favorite groups and my favorite pairings.

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What are your opinions?

Remember, I'm not bashing anyone. I'm just telling what my thoughts are.

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Hilleo #1
Chapter 8: Actually in my school, you dont have to have good grades when youre in a sport team. Even if you have the worst score in the whole school but actually great in sport, you dont have to care about failing.
Shiny_sushi #2
Chapter 6: I totally agree with you! I really hate Mary Sues with whom you absolutely can't relate to! >:(
Ps: thanks for the precious advice!
Hilleo #3
Chapter 4: I had. And it's annoying-.- i was like,"uhh, what's the use of updating when you only got 5 paragraphs to share?"
Hilleo #4
Chapter 2: Same with you. I don't rush them to update unless the last time they updated was like 3 or more months ago. Hehe
Hilleo #5
Chapter 1: Actually, i write because I always want to share my imaginations with people. I want them to know what I am thinking, what I am feeling...
MoroccanBlackDragon #6
Chapter 1: OMG I just needed to read this!!! YES I ened to share this with my Jonkey shippers "friends" They kept saying that if I write about Jongkey my fics will way better and so on. But I don't ship Jongkey, so what? I want you appreciate my effort like I appreciate urs T.T why does it hurt to see people neglecting that point : That writer deserve a chance, even if I don't ship that pairing.
travellingIdeas #7
Chapter 8: I agree. I just realized recently that highschool fic focused mainly on the romance life, I mean, I get it that the genre is 'romance' but it doesn't mean that all the highschool things that the characters have to do magically gone.
more fic with highschool!au genre should describe the struggle of their character as a student more.
Sforzando #8
Chapter 7: I definitely agree that a title should be memorable and well thought out. It should especially relate to the story. It irks me when the title sounds pretty but has absolutely no significance to the story. One thing I'd have to disagree on is the word limit. "One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies" by Sonya Sones is a great example of this. True, not many titles exceed six words but it can be done really well by those who do.
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