And thanks!
I think that, in the part that I control, that there is a desire to keep things fresh as well as to change a lot faster than most readers would feel comfortable with. (Readers change too! That means that as they learn, grow and live their lives, what they like in new things will alter over time, just like the person writing the tale.)
It's a balancing act that I never really thought about before I started writing. I'd always figured that authors just had one kind of "voice" so wrote that way even when ti became predictable. The truth is, at least for me, that when I've changed much at all, people started to respond less than favorably. They want what they are used to, with just enough change and alteration for it to feel new-ish.
*Which isn't some huge crime, just hard to balance for so many people. Everyone likes things ot progress at a different pace.
The same is true of darker things. If I put, say twice as much darkness and depravity into my works, a certain portion of readers would complain about it and "never read that jerk again!"
Seriously, I get that if I even try to put in a social issue, even if I show all sides of it in the same work or series. I've had negative one star reviews both for how I evily refuted someone's opinion and how I evilly supported that opinion... Not just about the same book, but the same scenes! It's nearly fun at this point to find issues, hit a middle of the road position on it and then listen to so many people think that my take on things means that I, personally am evil.
As if they didn't get that already? Did I ever claim to be a good person? If so, that was a mistake. Hmm...
Seriously, I'm the bad-boy of soft science-fiction and fantasy. Oh, yeah.Statistics: Posted by PS Power — Wed May 16, 2018 7:21 pm
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