Writers are taught not to write wish-fulfillment—it's too easy, boring, or low stakes. But that reasoning is wrong. It only seems that way because we've all already read thousands of wish-fulfillment stories about cis het able-bodied white males, so they're very... predictable.
For every other demographic?
Readers actively, desperately crave wish-fulfillment stories about themselves, because they rarely if ever see them.
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@marylowd - You can have too much of a good thing. I opened up a world to writers where 42 people got their wishes, and I ended the world when the majority of them were just trans wish-fulfillment stories.
They were good. Some VERY good. But in the end, way more than there should have been. :)
