Post by Radrook Admin on Dec 17, 2022 18:38:27 GMT -5
The Tickle my Happiness Bone Please! reader.
Have you ever heard of a Tickle-My-Happiness-Bone-Please Reader? Well, neither had I until just recently. Then I discovered that there are indeed readers who cannot tolerate stories that have any degree of unhappiness in them. Which means that in order for a writer to retain this type of reader's attention, he must exclude keep unhappy events to a minimum, or else, the unhappy event must always lead to a happy ending lest the "Tickle-My-Happiness-Bone-Please!" reader become disgruntled and stop reading.
In short, such a reader evaluates a story using one criteria, and one criteria only, how happy the story is making him feel. If the story introduces conflict that engenders fear, pity, apprehension, disgust, anger, etc. then the urge to flee will affect his evaluation of such a story.
In short, any writer who wants to keep this kind of reader reading his stories and giving him high ratings, must cater to that kind or reader's special need to have his Happiness Bone Tickled.
Unfortunately for such extremely sensitive readers, the vast majority of writers are unwilling to sacrifice drama as well as variety, in their story via the omission of conflict in order to keep them reading. So all that the happiness-bone readers can hope for, is that some percentage of the writers are so desperate for attention that they will comply, or else that some will comply because they suffer from the same psychological anomaly that they do.
Sadly, when such readers predominate, it inevitably leads to a sort of mutual admiration society of intolerable readers praising lifeless writing while ignoring everything else. No, it is not necessarily purposeful deceit on the writer's part. In fact, such a writer will sincerely describe his boring modus operandi as a noble attempt to remain always positive and his ability to pull it off repeatedly, as a gift. In fact, the writer might have even convinced himself that such is the reason for his refusing to include real drama in his stories.
However, any editor worth his salt, which involves knowing what good writing is, and the ability to quickly identify bad writing, will recognize such a lifeless pattern as monotonous, and will consider such lack of genuine drama as extremely detrimental to his publication. Because of it, he will refuse to include such flawed writing in his publication lest he lose the majority of his readers.
In short, such a reader evaluates a story using one criteria, and one criteria only, how happy the story is making him feel. If the story introduces conflict that engenders fear, pity, apprehension, disgust, anger, etc. then the urge to flee will affect his evaluation of such a story.
In short, any writer who wants to keep this kind of reader reading his stories and giving him high ratings, must cater to that kind or reader's special need to have his Happiness Bone Tickled.
Unfortunately for such extremely sensitive readers, the vast majority of writers are unwilling to sacrifice drama as well as variety, in their story via the omission of conflict in order to keep them reading. So all that the happiness-bone readers can hope for, is that some percentage of the writers are so desperate for attention that they will comply, or else that some will comply because they suffer from the same psychological anomaly that they do.
Sadly, when such readers predominate, it inevitably leads to a sort of mutual admiration society of intolerable readers praising lifeless writing while ignoring everything else. No, it is not necessarily purposeful deceit on the writer's part. In fact, such a writer will sincerely describe his boring modus operandi as a noble attempt to remain always positive and his ability to pull it off repeatedly, as a gift. In fact, the writer might have even convinced himself that such is the reason for his refusing to include real drama in his stories.
However, any editor worth his salt, which involves knowing what good writing is, and the ability to quickly identify bad writing, will recognize such a lifeless pattern as monotonous, and will consider such lack of genuine drama as extremely detrimental to his publication. Because of it, he will refuse to include such flawed writing in his publication lest he lose the majority of his readers.