How do creative writers stay independent and avoid parroting when they keep trying to anticipate how readers react to their writing? by Kyle Phoenix

Real writers/artists don’t think about the audience in the way that hundreds of creative writers espouse to or try to cater to here on Quora. Real artists want the work to be accessible, to make some sort of sense even if its experimental. Yes, there are popular writers and here's to hoping that it fulfills art as creative expression in the authors mind but the audience should never be your goal.

If you cater to an audience you lose your own unique voice and what you're trying to do in your career, lifetime is make that voice distinct, true, strong,. Another reason why so many of the Quoran questions about creative writing ring vapid. Meryl Streep is an Actress, Nicole Ritchie acts. Film, video, scripts, sets are all involved but one is playing in a whole different playground than the other. Meryl would be in the regional theater group of whatever was left of humanity after the apocalypse, its her Art. She'd find a way to restart an arts program.

The effort of wanting to create something good, real, daring keeps variety in ones work.

I wrote a short story long ago about a woman dealing with the double trauma of not only rape but the uncontrollable pleasure she felt from it.
Another short story was about a little boy beaten to death by his mothers boyfriend.

Another was about a sexually fluid woman who had to deal with unwanted attention.

All of the tales that got published were slightly twisted, dark, upsetting subjects. I remember as a child when I first had characters curse or have sex or acknowledge race, it felt like an artistic threshold each time. I learned that what would they think of me mattered less and less until it vanished to the art itself.

Now the Art says tell the story. Cross new lines. Craft worlds and people that fit in their realities not the readers.

To the reader, I write mostly in English and try to contain the entire tale with necessary bits within the piece, that's the clarity i owe when I make it public. Everything else, all bets are off.

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