Dear Writers,
Who do you write for?
Maybe I’m a bit twisted but I loved reading my efforts in writer’s workshops. I loved the constructive criticism and the bits of praise.
Who are you writing for and why?
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For myself
I write for myself, or perhaps for my muse.
I think most of my stories (both the ones I've posted here and the ones I never will) are me trying to work something out in my mind. For instance, my "magnum opus" (Melanie's Story) was my subconscious/my muse trying to come to terms with my being trans.
Mostly me
In the beginning it was always me. A bit of letting off the pressure of being trans and having to live as if I weren't. In those days expressing my trans nature outwardly was hit and miss and always of short duration. So sitting at the computer churning out "could have been/should have been" scenarios from parts of my young life provided that outlet. I lived vicariously through the characters in my stories.
It wasn't until I began posting stories online especially here at BCTS that I began to think of an "audience." Over the years my target audience has changed. Early on it was young cross-dressers/transgenders. As I read other's works and I paid attention to comments on my own (note that for a few years I didn't even look at comments) I began to refine my work to entertain more mature members of our community.
These days I often try to be a bit educational in my efforts so as to provide a factual basis to my work thinking that maybe I'll be a resource to help folks coming out of the closet explain themselves to family or friends.
However, the trite axiom of "I have a story in me that needs to come out" is the driving force and actually there doesn't need to be a "target audience" to write that story. Sometimes the story doesn't even need to be completed. Hence the dozen or so incomplete stories sitting in my bone pile.
Hugs
Patricia
Happiness is being all dressed up and HAVING some place to go.
Semper in femineo gerunt
Ich bin ein femininer Mann
Wellll . . .
. . . A well-established author described one of my stories as being “about what one might expect” and an example of the “fantasy of acceptance.” The comment caused me to reflect deeply, and I came to the conclusion that virtually all of my stories could be described exactly the same way. Sadly, that’s probably why I write. Considering the time value of money, therapy might have been cheaper!
— Emma
therapy might have been cheaper!
If you are a bean counter, that may be true. But in writing for therapy there's no out of pocket cost. Professional counseling doesn't come cheap. Writing simply occupies surplus time; time we might otherwise spend watching television or reading for pleasure. All time can't be valued the same as time spent earning a living. Time is worth only what you spend it on or would have otherwise spent it on.
For me, writing and reading TG fiction has provided thousands of dollars worth of therapy that I could never have afforded.
Hugs
Patricia
Happiness is being all dressed up and HAVING some place to go.
Semper in femineo gerunt
Ich bin ein femininer Mann