I'm one of those irritating writers whose worldbuilding happens inside her head, and who has characters that just do what they're going to do--I don't consciously control the stories I write as much as some writers do.
I don't think there is always a message, or at least that there is always just one message; but I do think that one can often judge in advance how one's audience is going to interpret the text one produces. And if one knows in advance that one's audience is going to take, say, a racist message away from the text, even if that's not how one intends it, maybe one should re-think exactly how one should go about presenting onself.
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Re: part 2
Date: 2008-02-28 02:00 am (UTC)I don't think there is always a message, or at least that there is always just one message; but I do think that one can often judge in advance how one's audience is going to interpret the text one produces. And if one knows in advance that one's audience is going to take, say, a racist message away from the text, even if that's not how one intends it, maybe one should re-think exactly how one should go about presenting onself.