as someone who has accidentally hit a civilian with a wrench over and over until the writhing stopped
I feel like some of you guys think "bad art" is like someone gluing rhinestones to a water melon, or a guy who made his own armchair out of Ohio license plates, or a trashy romance novel where someone says "the blue-eyed one kissed the brown-eyed one," when in reality bad art is a 1000000 Billion Dollar movie where none of the workers got paid and every single creative decision was market tested to see how lucrative of a profit it could foreseeably make to wow shareholders.
tragedy enjoyers when a character perpetuates the cycle of violence they themselves were a victim of
girl i don’t know how to say this. that’s not a found family that’s a platoon of child soldiers.
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writing memes but it’s all frames from hannibal rising
chasing that character that never follows the outline and ends up doing random shit that adds nothing to the plot for 5 extra chapters you hadn’t even planned
very very ill little guy that is soooo nervous, „passion made me crazy“, angry person that is actually just trying to hide how soft they are, the idiots to lovers, unsatisfying/apathetic ‚they will never be the same’ type of open endings
Alright lads, here's one for any and all writers: what are the top five things readers can basically always expect to see in your work?
I think we all have this one chapter with incomprehensible dialogue that we wrote at 4am that just has us like
Personally, I write stupid silly scenarios that are useless and unrealistic but they make me giggle
I don’t write from nothing. Every character, every word is the echo of reality. Every feature is plucked from someone I knew, every line from a conversation I had, every heartbreak is my own.
I just try to write better endings.
ugghh uaahhfh aaafdhhf a I write about war. Constantly in the trenches. You’re safe and wanted here.
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