storywriting not for the masses

Hi,

I am working on a game with a friend. We do not want to sell the game,
therefore it does not matter if it is not played by millions at all.
Beside some (hopefully) fancy game ideas, I like to write a story.
Unfortunately I am not a so talented author, therefore I thought to
first read one more more books about Writing and Game Design.
Currently I am reading, Chris Crawford's "On Game Design" and a book
from Sol Stein about writing.
That bad thig is - I do not like this two books. They constantly talk
about how to appeal the masses or more precisely how to appeal most
american people. But because money does not matter I do not care about
this. I personally think that the real great things on this world are
not appealing to anyone. e.g. Personally I like reading the platon
dialogs (e.g. Menon) in my opinion they are outstanding although most
people think they are nonsense or never read one. My question there
is: Are there any books about good storywriting that do not care about
the masses?

Thanks in advance for any tip, link, ...

Azraiyl

Thanks for your answer,

The word "good" is not appropriate in this context, sorry. I am
looking for
books where not every tenth sentence cares about what the casual
player or the
casual reader thinks or wants.
"think about what good story writing IS": sure I can try to do this on
my own,
but unfortunately im not a genius, and maybe there are others who
already have
written down their thoughts (sounds like I am to lazy to think at all
I know).
But maybe I am wrong at all. But do you think that e.g. while Goethe
was writing
"The Sorrows of Young Werther" he always was thinking about the
readers?

azraiyl@gmail.com wrote:
> But maybe I am wrong at all. But do you think that e.g. while Goethe
> was writing "The Sorrows of Young Werther" he always was thinking about
> the readers?

I'm afraid your problem is unlikely to be solved by a book: after all,
the book must sell, so its writer must think in terms of mass appeal and
write what most of the readers ask for (especially in this
canned-culture historical period).
Besides, if the writer was *that* good at writing stories, s/he would
probably write novels instead of "how to write novels" books :-)

You can't learn a skill without trying it out. It's probably better to
go on your own (you'll make mistakes and learn from then), read a lot
(you already do that, I presume), ask for ideas in non-mainstream
circles (e.g. the text adventure community) and have a lot of patience.
You won't become like good old Johann Wolfgang, but you'll have fun.

Enrico