If you want to make money, mayve you need to keep your audience in mind. If you want to make timeless art (ie Lord of the Rings - also devoid of women), what your audience wants should be the least of your concerns.
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The way I look at it, whether writing fiction or nonfiction, it’s not about writing what the audience wants- it’s about successfully landing what’s in your head into the audience’s head.
That means understanding the audience. If there are inadvertent frictions between you and the audience, the work is less likely to spread the entertainment, ideas, themes, and so forth as the creator sees it.