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Q&A Should I focus on ideas which the market enjoys, or ideas which I enjoy?

From your either-or phrasing, I understand that you're asking whether you should write something that appears "hot", but that you personally find utterly boring. How then do you propose to write su...

posted 6y ago by Galastel‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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#4: Attribution notice removed by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-12T21:57:23Z (almost 5 years ago)
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#3: Attribution notice added by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-08T09:03:53Z (almost 5 years ago)
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#2: Initial revision by (deleted user) · 2019-12-08T09:03:53Z (almost 5 years ago)
From your either-or phrasing, I understand that you're asking whether you should write something that appears "hot", but that you personally find utterly boring. How then do you propose to write such a thing? Do you see yourself sitting there, putting drivel on a page, fighting off boredom and disgust? What joy is there in such writing? What artistry? Do you respect yourself and that which you do, if what you write is of no interest to you? How can the reader find anything attractive in a work where you, the writer, find nothing? Are you treating your reader with respect, if you treat with contempt the story you give them?

_The Hunger Games_, and whatever was hot before _the Hunger Games_, and whatever will be hot after - when they emerged, they were all new, original, they were the books their writers would have wanted to read, found interesting to write, at their core were ideas the authors enjoyed mulling over and found something new to say about.  
The works that came after, and seemed like copies, these too were written with love - by authors who wanted "more of the same", and failing to find it, wrote it. They were stories inspired by the first one, a response born of love.

You cannot tell a good story, unless you enjoy telling it. You've got to respect your work and your readers; if you find your story boring, you're not respecting either. Like a chef serving something he wouldn't eat himself. So **write what you find interesting.** If you put your truth into your story, there will be those who, like you, find it interesting.

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2018-06-08T18:13:15Z (over 6 years ago)
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