And I agree, a big part of becoming a good writer is knowing what fans need rather than what they want. But that doesn't change what I'd like to see, but I'm happy with whatever path they decide take and I have faith that they will do a good job as they have always done.
Not to give offence regarding what you said, and what you said was, in spirit, correct, but I have a strong suspicion that PC's writer is not so much becoming good, but may very well already be a professional.
Whoever's penning this gives a lot of cues of already being in the business, and possibly doing this as a side route. There are a lot of VERY polished bits in his writing.
I could be wrong, but I did focus creative writing in college, so have some experience w/this, and there's a lot of evidence here of someone who knows what they're doing and already has the end planned out and is working the characters to meet the plot(s), with a LOT of details working seamlessly towards that end: details that would have needed careful consideration and judicious juggling beforehand, to all line up. This includes a fair amount of philosophical introspection and debate that would be flatly missing from a less polished work. The writer has seriously thought this one over: REPEATEDLY, I suspect.
It wouldn't surprise me if he's the sort of person who runs through conversations in his head beforehand, and he very much smacks of someone who's been writing for quite a while, possibly professionally. He may be in the porn business or not; he may have a more "reputable" writing career outside PC.
Again, that's mainly just an impression I'm getting, but it's a pretty strong one, gleaned from considerable and consistent evidence. People just dipping into writing tend to be a LOT more clumsy, and hack writers are, well, hack, and he's kinda not.
