Honestly? I write for my characters.

If they don't get me to transcribe words onto a page, they start hijacking my brain (and suggesting stupid plot points).

If other people like or find sympathy in my stories, it's complete coincidence.

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Myself. Indulging my inner child and healing my inner traumatized, angry teen.

People on the struggle bus - depression, anxiety, CPTSD.

LGBTQIA+ people who need to be represented in positive light.

Anyone who knows what it's like to be overwhelmed and defeated, but try anyway.

I write for myself. My stories are the ones I want to read over and over again, and I can't do that if I change them to suit someone else's tastes or preferences. #PretendPanel

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I write for myself!
I love seeing a version of myself represented on page. Before finding the indie space I hadn’t read too many books with a queer or nonbinary protagonist. I wanted to be represented, so I wrote it.

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I write for myself, first. It has to be characters I like, a story I enjoy, a place I can spend thousands of hours thinking about, otherwise I'll never finish it. When I revise and edit, I think more about how to make it appealing to others.

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Primarily for myself. I write for pleasure, to sort out my feelings, to give form to my daydreams and for a sense of achievement.

Does that make me self-indulgent? 🤷‍♂️

But I also write for an elusive, possibly mythical, readership which thinks I have something worth sharing.

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I write for the things between the keys. Each stroke a drumbeat for the blind, pale segments coiled beneath. They don't read my words. They taste the heat of my fingers.

I type all day. They are hungry.

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Like most of us, I write primarily for myself. I don't have it in me to write to market, it ends up feeling like work, rather than fun. But my circle is growing.

I write for my wife, and I'm always excited to hear her reactions. I reckon I also write for a few BSky weirdos too 😘

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I write for myself!

Not because I particularly enjoy reading what I write (I'm usually beyond tired of it by the time I hit publish), but because I can't really write something if I'm not passionate about it.

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I write for myself because I write for the sake of being creative and to tell a story. I would love for everyone to read it, but if I’m gonna write something good, I’m gonna write what I personally love and dig in like it’s an eating contest and I’ve got a 20lb burger

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I write for you. 🫵 Yes, you. Specifically. All people. I have no idea who my audience is and you might be it! I write the stories I want to tell, but if I wrote them for me I'd squirrel them on my hard drive and never publish. So, I write for my hypothetical fans.

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Given this some thought, considering the market & zeitgeist

Since my work contains violence, surreal and dark comedy, musings on spirituality as well as nihilistic observations on life, along with unapologetic sex and sexuality, on top of no concern for continuity . . .

Nobody?
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#Pretendpanel October D3: I write for the outcast kids, the quiet queers with a deeply complex inner world, the observant neurotics who love spotting patterns. I write for the kids who felt their struggles cut them off from others and the rugged tenacious people who fight for their happiness.

For myself, definitely.

I did non-fiction for a long time that was for other people to help understand the world. But the more it became apparent I was making zero difference, the faster it burned me out and sucked the joy out of writing anything. 🧵

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Oh, me primarily. Writing is a lot of work! You're gonna be reading over this thing you're working on way more than anyone else, you more than anyone need to enjoy it!
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I don’t know how to be creative otherwise 😅

Every time I try to take up visual art, I can’t get past the, “This sucks and doesn’t look like what I envisioned,” stage—which is, like, the starting line.

But when I write, it just kind of clicks. ⬇️

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I wrote the 1st draft of my WIP to tell readers what I thought they needed to hear

I overhauled it in the 2nd draft to write for me as a reader and arrived at a lean, mean 90k word novel

Draft 3 and I'm still writing for reader me but with beta feedback

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