lunabee34

You know I hear a lot of people say they write for themselves and I believe that as a motivation, but I'm not really sure it's true for me. I pretty much always write for others. Doesn't mean that I'm afraid to write stuff that I think will appeal only to a very small percentage of people, but I am always aware of and thinking about how an audience is going to respond to what I'm writing.

And I have no idea what genuine literary merit means. I really don't. I feel vaguely blasphemous saying this, but it's like porn. I know it when I see it. Or something. I mean, I will argue that The Stand has literary merit but not so much The Bodyguard's Assignment which is the most formulaic and crappy romance novel I have perhaps ever read. But that's not because I think romance novels have no literary merit--hello, Sweet, Savage Love--but because that particular novel is freaking awful.