TnT: reader take-away

[pipisafoat]

Contest 53 submissions are open until 5 pm EDT tomorrow - let your character meet a new family member!

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I think it's relatively rare for someone to write entirely for fun. Some people's fiction carries an apparently social message, or a political message, or a moral, or a warning about what could happen if X keeps going the way it currently is. Or maybe it's not a warning - maybe it's "do keep going like this, so Y can can result from X, because that would be very, very cool!"

Are you a person who has one typical message embedded in your stories, or is each story different in what you hope the reader will take from it? What do you want the reader to take from it, and how often do you think that happens?

Comments

[silverflight8]

WORDS COME OUT - THEME DEVELOPS - YOU CAN'T EXPLAIN THAT

(or however the hip kids are doing it nowadays)

[mythochromos]

This.

[clare_dragonfly]

Yeah, pretty much what they said XD

::slinks away::

(thank you for posting for me!)

[pipisafoat]

You should know that, in my head, you have an inexplicably hip dance that accompanies this proclamation.

[pipisafoat]

I wonder if it's worth making a google calendar with emailed reminders to the appropriate people each week. I don't know if that can be done, actually, but hmm. Anyway, I've sent smeddley an email reminder myself for topic going up today but haven't heard back yet.

[clare_dragonfly]

Hmm, maybe if we all joined a Google group, then we could have a group calendar with emailed reminders? Or something like that...

Smeddley's probably at work.

[theoretical_cat]

If you put that open to the whole group, I could follow it on my phone and maybe actually remember to participate. (Internet at my apartment is still sketchy at best).