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Have any of you, besides George obviously, considered writing dross on purpose?
I mean page after page of the sexy man's sapphire eyes blazing like desert skies and making your inner goddess tremble with lust, giving you 9-paragraph orgasms that cause temporary blindness, etc.
Do you look at highlighted passages from some bestsellers and say, Dear me, but that's really stupid, so I'm going to write something stupid?
Then you create a dumb-sounding pen name and a cheesy cover, but d*mn it if the work doesn't turn out to just be okay and not horrendously terrible/stupid enough to be omg-it's-so-bad-it's-fan-fic-riffic-good popular, but still mildly amusing to a small subset of people, just like all your work?
Why do people enjoy descriptions that read like bad teen poetry? If I put in a bunch of descriptions of the male lead's irises and compare them to everything in that color range, will it get the books recommended more?
I mean page after page of the sexy man's sapphire eyes blazing like desert skies and making your inner goddess tremble with lust, giving you 9-paragraph orgasms that cause temporary blindness, etc.
Do you look at highlighted passages from some bestsellers and say, Dear me, but that's really stupid, so I'm going to write something stupid?
Then you create a dumb-sounding pen name and a cheesy cover, but d*mn it if the work doesn't turn out to just be okay and not horrendously terrible/stupid enough to be omg-it's-so-bad-it's-fan-fic-riffic-good popular, but still mildly amusing to a small subset of people, just like all your work?
Why do people enjoy descriptions that read like bad teen poetry? If I put in a bunch of descriptions of the male lead's irises and compare them to everything in that color range, will it get the books recommended more?