. My apologies for being flip. As a straight woman, I honestly don't care if a male or female is straight, gay, or bi, and I approach my reading the same way. I admit I'm a bit curious about how bi "works" -- as you said elsewhere, we're a very black-or-white society, and it's kind of hard to wrap my brain around it since I haven't experienced it -- but I've filed it in my brain as, "None of your damn business. They don't fuss about your lovelife, you don't fuss about theirs."
folks do appreciate decent characterisation. It's the difference between Harlequin and gritty realism.
True. But, I'm flexible, and willing to read some less than decent fic, if it attracts me. Personally, I like my gritty realism "softened" styles -- a modicum of Harlequin, if you will.
I hope everything we write has at least a little significance beyond that.
But different writers have different ideals. For me, I'm happy just to tell a decent story; trying to have 'significance' would feel pretentious. Other writers have other reactions. I feel that there are a lot of "right" ways to approach writing, and not too many "wrong" ones (although there are some). .
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My apologies for being flip. As a straight woman, I honestly don't care if a male or female is straight, gay, or bi, and I approach my reading the same way. I admit I'm a bit curious about how bi "works" -- as you said elsewhere, we're a very black-or-white society, and it's kind of hard to wrap my brain around it since I haven't experienced it -- but I've filed it in my brain as, "None of your damn business. They don't fuss about your lovelife, you don't fuss about theirs."
folks do appreciate decent characterisation. It's the difference between Harlequin and gritty realism.
True. But, I'm flexible, and willing to read some less than decent fic, if it attracts me. Personally, I like my gritty realism "softened" styles -- a modicum of Harlequin, if you will.
I hope everything we write has at least a little significance beyond that.
But different writers have different ideals. For me, I'm happy just to tell a decent story; trying to have 'significance' would feel pretentious. Other writers have other reactions. I feel that there are a lot of "right" ways to approach writing, and not too many "wrong" ones (although there are some).
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