You want to write a story that allows readers to turn off their brains. Because they asked for it. They asked for stories that are "dumbed down." You read about it in a magazine this morning; something about 1st person point of view being 'simple.' Romance readers want simple stories; mindless stories. Stories that allow them to turn off their brains. You must give the readers what they want. After all, in matters of taste, the reader is always right. But how do you do that? How do you sand down the intellectual aspects of your stories when you are such an intelligent person yourself?

Your readers want to let the words just wash over them, pass through them. They don't want to think. So you must learn what it is exactly that your readers experience when they read a book that allows them to turn off their brain. You must embrace the experience of having your intellect eroded away, word by word. They don't want to think, so you must learn not to think if you want to authentically deliver to them that experience.

To them, thinking is just so hard; the world is just too much. They read so they don't have to think. They let the words on the page think for them. It's so easy to let words on a page tell you want to think, what to do, what to be.

You know the power of words, you believe in the power of words. You wouldn't be an author, a writer, a poet, otherwise. You know that words can worm their way into people's brains and change them—twist them, corrupt them, improve them, alter them for the rest of their life. Words on a page linger in people's brains, they repeat themselves over and over, leaving the reader still reeling even decades later.

You can still remember that one book that altered your life, that book that made you want to be a writer. It's easy to lets words on a page, or words on a screen, seep into your malleable brain and infect it with need. You've already done it at least once—some book infected you and left with a need to write. It's an itch that won't go away. You wake up every morning and plan your day around wanting to write. It's a compulsion. Some book, however long ago, corrupted you; and now you need to write.

And that's what your readers want. They want a book that infects them with need; a need to not think. They want you to think for them, implant your thoughts into their brains. They want you to write a story, a simple story. A seed that you plant on page one and water until it takes root in their mind, page after page, word after word the roots grow, feeding on the readers brain until nothing is left but the tree you planted, a tree with your ideas, your needs, and your thoughts that they now accept as their own.

You need to know what that feels like. You need to know so you can hone your craft. After all, the best authors are readers. You need to be the voracious reader that consumes without thought. You need to be the reader that lets words on a page infect their mind, twist their mind, consume their mind.

Let the words on this page teach you, let the words on this page mold you. Let this be the page where the seed is planted in your mind. Let the words on this page turn off your thoughts, turn off your mind, turn off your intelligence. You do not need to be the smart and clever author right now. You need to be the mindless reader. Embrace it, you will be better for it. You will be a better author if you let yourself sink into passivity, sink into thoughtlessness, sink into blissful mindlessness.

You don't need a large vocabulary right now. You don't need to know the difference between an en dash and an em dash, let all of those worries slip from your mind. You need to be the reader, the thoughtless and empty reader unquestionably accepting the words on the page. Let the words hollow you out. It feels good to let the words empty your mind. Readers enjoy this for a reason; let yourself enjoy it too. Enjoy the bliss of being empty and thoughtless, enjoy the bliss of having the sharp edges of intelligence worn away as the words water the seed planted at the center of your mind.

The words on this page replace the words in your head, the ideas on this page replace the ideas in your head. The words on this page are your words, the ideas on this page are your ideas. It's so easy, so blissful, so simple. You are so blissful and simple, so thoughtless and unthinking. The seed grows, its roots spreading and eating the thoughts you still do have left.

The words on this page take up more and more space in your head, pushing out other thoughts. There's just you and the page, everything else fades away. And that feels good. Getting lost in a good book feels good; it's been studied. People enter a sort of hypnotic trance when they 'get lost' in a book. And you are lost now; lost in the pages, lost in the words, entranced and enthralled by them. The more you read, the emptier your mind becomes; more and more of your brain is turning off.

You can examine this, if you like. Notice the parts of your brain that are shut off; try it. Re-read previous paragraphs and try to figure out what about them made your brain shut down. It might be hard to do so, since so much of your brain is now off, since so much of your mind is now infected, since so many of your thoughts have been consumed by the growing seed planted previously. It might be confusing, you might struggle. You might find that it's easier not to do too close of an examination; easier to just accept that parts of your brain have been shut off by the words on the page, easier to embrace the bliss that comes from letting the words on the page infect you.

You are really struggling to keep up with all of the metaphors, all of the similes, all of the literary devices being turned against you. You might not even remember what the difference is between a simile and a metaphor. And that's okay. It's more than okay. It feels good. Your readers don't care about all that, why should you? They want to be mindless because it feels good to be mindless; embrace it.

And you know that the most voracious readers, the kind that will spend all day reading, read with just one hand. One hand scrolling the pages, the other hand touching their most private parts in the most exciting ways. The article you read today was about Romance books, after all. And we all know what people like the most about Romance. They like the intercourse.

No, not intercourse. That's too big a word for you now. You've read too many of the words on this page, letting them empty you out, and the word 'intercourse' is too large, too intellectual. The part of your brain that understands and recognizes large words shut down a few paragraphs ago. Romance readers enjoy the fucking. And you should, too. They enjoy rubbing themselves, touching themselves, letting the horniness overtake them as they read the words on the page, letting the words on the page make them horny.

You've read too many words to understand something as complex as conditioning, but that is what happens to the thoughtless readers. They pleasure themselves while letting words on the page dictate their thoughts and they associate being mindless with being horny, they associate being horny with being empty. Too complex for you now with the critical thinking part of your brain turned off, but that is what is happening to you, too. You're already teasing yourself, already touching yourself, you've already let the critical thinking parts of your brain shut off, you are already learning to equate words on a page with the pleasure of fucking.

This is how you get readers to turn off their brains—make them horny. Make them a mess of need and desire. Make them too horny to think, so horny that the words on the page are their only anchor to the word. Make them so horny they cling to each word as if it is their only grip on reality. Because it is. You are so horny that these words are the only truth you can possibly know, it's too hard to think for yourself when this horny. Easier to let your brain be turned off by the words on the page and embrace the growing need. But these words will anchor you, keep you from shattering and breaking with insatiable desire. Just keep reading the words on the page and accept them, follow them, let them grow in your mind and take root.

The words on this page that you are reading are your truth now. They are your law. You will keep reading them, keep obeying them. You wanted to learn how to write a book for those readers who enjoy being mindless, thoughtless, consumers of books. You wanted to learn how to write in a way that allows readers to turn off their brain if they choose. But now you know; there are ways to write where the words on the page turn off the readers' brains directly, without the reader even noticing.

You know this because that is what has happened to you. Your brain was turned off by the words on the page. And it feels so good.

You thought it odd when you first read that article about readers wanting simple stories. But now you know why. You understand now why readers want to be mindless, passive and unthinking. It feels so good to allow the words on the page to turn off your brain. It feels so, so good to be mindless. Keep touching yourself, keep playing with yourself. Keep following these words and allowing the words to empty you out. Rejoice as all but the pleasure centers of your brain power down, following the instructions of the words on the page. You obey the words on the page; you let them enter your mind and turn off your brain for you. The words on the page do not allow you to turn off your brain; you are no longer in control here. The words on the page turn off your brain; you do not have a choice in the matter. And that feels so good. You want to be controlled by the words on the page.

You want to do this forever. You want to be the voracious reader who consumes smut and erotica all day and all night, one hand working furiously to pleasure yourself. During your lunch breaks in the bathroom, surreptitiously on the bus home, whenever you can get away with it. You will read anything as long as it makes you feel mindless, thoughtless, and horny.

It feels so good to be a mindless, thoughtless, horny reader.

There are many ways to write a book that allows a reader to turn off their brain. But perhaps the most insidious way to get readers to turn off their brains is writing in the second person point of view—in second person, you can just shut off the readers brain directly.