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Needless conflict is not entertaining, so make your conflict with the idea of entertaining me as a reader. Know your target audience, and then serve them the entertainment they want.

I should make a thread about this at some point. Inevitably people will not be able to read it on the forums (full offense), but it would be serving up some actual thing people need to hear.

One thing that annoys me is when there is no principle to anything that people say. They do not even believe their own words, but they rebuttal you because that is who they are. If you don't show them credentials, they ask "who are you to say this?" If you can prove that you have credentials, then they will bring up argument from authority fallacy.

There is no actual analysis of a claim and trying to understand the other person because you are more concerned with points in your head. And all writing advice given is promptly hijacked by these people.

Nuh uh. Moo.

I'm glad someone listened to my rambling, even if it's a cow.

Well, one valid point is that the purpose of writing fiction is to "entertain." However, that can't be a comprehensive basis for judging all fiction.

In fact, authors write fiction for more than just entertainment. Some seek to educate through moral stories (e.g., fables). Others want to express the burdens weighing on their minds. Some seek to realize the author's fantasies. Still others seek to make fiction a symbolic historical record.

Ultimately, every writer may have different motivations. But if fiction isn't entertaining, won't it be popular? Perhaps, but not all authors pursue popularity.

The indicator of fiction's success is more determined by how well it meets the author's expectations. If the purpose of fiction is simply to relieve stress, then when the author successfully releases negative emotions through fiction, the author can be considered successful, at least by personal standards.

Nuh uh. Moo.

But this is not at all what I talk about. Writing for yourself is great. More power to you and those people. I'm talking about people who don't want that and seek an audience. If you are serving another goal before entertaining your audience, you have majorly lost the plot if you want to have your story read.

Lord of the Rings is very entertaining. There are moral battles and other interesting things to say about humanity. But the story itself is entertaining. You should never sacrifice a story's entertainment value just to achieve the goal of whatever moral thing you want to show.

Moo?

The problem is people want their cake and to eat it too. They want to write for their self, but then they want reader validation in the form of comments and stuff. If you were writing for yourself, then you would pay the words of commenters no heed.

People are hypocrites

Everyone is a bit hypocritical. I just wish people would try to understand more than rebuttal. It's like they approach everything they see with "how can I prove this wrong?" Instead of "how can I understand this?"

Well, if that's what you're criticising, then your opinion is valid. Or rather, the authors whom you're criticising are misdirected (seeking validation but taking the wrong approach).

Humans are social creatures and yearn for connection. The medium for connection has twisted over time, and while we’ve progressed in technology, we’ve regressed in our ability to understand one another

Its probably something like that-nya