Having finished two, shitty, self-published books, I’m envious of anyone who can write well.
Create wonderful people that you care deeply about, and then kill them.
This is part of why I’m a shit writer, I think. I can’t stand to put my characters through any major torments. I also hate it when writers kill off major characters at the end of a story. Doing so often feels cheap and gratuitous.
I suppose I haven’t written enough. I need more practice, maybe.
I do think a lot of modern media embraces “unexpected death” tropes a bit too much. When done well, it can emphasize the harshness of a world and drive ambition to right things. Done wrong, it actually depletes the stakes because a lot of the motivation and interest was in saving the person that was just killed.
Breaking Bad, and Danganronpa V3, are some examples of where I felt the latter.
That said, it suspends belief sometimes when readers realize anyone in the main cast has plot armor. To me, part of that remedy is occasional deaths, but part is to just not invent frequent hanging-by-thread situations, and then frequent deus ex machina to exit them.
Obligatory shift of perspective.
There’s several pieces of media I’ve consumed lately where on a second review, I can see: “This makes little sense. This is a lazy connection, this line could’ve been worded much better” yet it doesn’t matter since I still remember my heavy reaction on first viewing, and can see other strong reactions.
A big part of that is how well the story itself sets up for core moments, even if some of the pieces are clumsy.
What if the author (me) is actually trash though :(
If My Immortal can be literally immortalised. So can you.
Good point, fuck the prepz!
LOL same with programmers. In fact I think moments of extreme frustration are pretty common for people who are really passionate about their work, because when you’re that way you innately push yourself to the limit for it.
Does this apply to programming? Because I make those expressions/faces all the time when I code
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that guy is writing
that’s what writing looks like
the mechanical process of putting the words down isn’t what people like about writing
it’s creating the words, and that is what that looks like (in the pics)Software engineering
