As per the thread title, write the kind of story you'd want to read is a common advice and it seems really good. It makes sense.
Then I look at the novel I've written and I'm thinking: This isn't the kind of story I'd see myself picking up in a store.
I greatly enjoyed writing the story though - getting to know the characters and exploring the setting and seeing how it really turned out in the end. It was good fun.
This could very well be a self-image issue, and I just need to grow up and realize that my tastes have changed.
I always pictured myself as enjoying stories with action and adventure - not ponderous relationship dramas, but that's kind of what I've written. I imagine the kind of blurb I'd write for the novel, and it doesn't match at all with what I normally look for when picking up a new book (this isn't the same story as I've been posting a blurb for recently btw).
Despite all this, I'm still happy with the story. I think it's a good one and I think people who read it will enjoy it. Heck, even I enjoy it, but then I'm partial to it because it's my story so of course I would.
What's your take on this?
Have you ever written a story and realized that even though you like it, it's not at all anything you'd expect yourself to read?
Then I look at the novel I've written and I'm thinking: This isn't the kind of story I'd see myself picking up in a store.
I greatly enjoyed writing the story though - getting to know the characters and exploring the setting and seeing how it really turned out in the end. It was good fun.
This could very well be a self-image issue, and I just need to grow up and realize that my tastes have changed.
I always pictured myself as enjoying stories with action and adventure - not ponderous relationship dramas, but that's kind of what I've written. I imagine the kind of blurb I'd write for the novel, and it doesn't match at all with what I normally look for when picking up a new book (this isn't the same story as I've been posting a blurb for recently btw).
Despite all this, I'm still happy with the story. I think it's a good one and I think people who read it will enjoy it. Heck, even I enjoy it, but then I'm partial to it because it's my story so of course I would.
What's your take on this?
Have you ever written a story and realized that even though you like it, it's not at all anything you'd expect yourself to read?