Moonpearl
The Yuri Empress
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A long time ago I received the advice not to write something that I wouldn't enjoy reading.
I'm not sure if that advice was supposed to only apply in certain situations, or if I entirely misunderstood, but I've never once managed to follow this advice.
You see, I enjoy playing about with aliens and soft sci-fi settings even though sci-fi is my least favourite genre. I won't read gender bender but I'll write it. I'm even about to write a borderline student x teacher relationship, and those things give me the shivers ever since I stopped being a teenager myself.
I enjoy writing these things and wouldn't want to stop. I write them in a way that's enjoyable to me, although I might still not pick them as a reader. Am I really doing it wrong?
One of my favourite authors is also fantastic at writing genres he never reads.
Do you only write the things you enjoy reading? Do you think it's valid advice? What things have you written that you'd never choose as a reader?
I'm not sure if that advice was supposed to only apply in certain situations, or if I entirely misunderstood, but I've never once managed to follow this advice.
You see, I enjoy playing about with aliens and soft sci-fi settings even though sci-fi is my least favourite genre. I won't read gender bender but I'll write it. I'm even about to write a borderline student x teacher relationship, and those things give me the shivers ever since I stopped being a teenager myself.
I enjoy writing these things and wouldn't want to stop. I write them in a way that's enjoyable to me, although I might still not pick them as a reader. Am I really doing it wrong?
One of my favourite authors is also fantastic at writing genres he never reads.
Do you only write the things you enjoy reading? Do you think it's valid advice? What things have you written that you'd never choose as a reader?