Do you find your writing limited to certain feelings or archetypes?
For instance, I only seem to think of 'tragic' stories. On the walk to work I thought of the events around a schoolkid accidentally slashing his own artery. Stories of people being trapped, uncomfortable, paranoid, killed etc. Never anything happy and always 'edgy'.
Tell me about your writing.
I can only write like a terrible Pynchon knockoff. My writing teacher gave me a lot of shit for this and made me read Jane Austen novels to try and change my style, but it didn't work.
I can't help but be humorous in my writing. If it's not at least a little bit funny then none of the other emotions work.
>>8222752
you mean to tell me that your prose fiction has traits which would make it identifiable as having been written by you personally? that's terrible!
>>8224181
Your writing is truly identifiable
For the most part my earlier stuff was from the point of view of self-pitying but still toxic narcissism. Luckily I grew up. Now my narcissists manage to pity others from time to time for not being them, and there is no self-pity. Progress ...
I have a habit of my placing my characters in awful circumstances, usually with many flaws incredibly detrimental to their character, and then throw them into the midst of a crisis.
Sometimes they overcome the challenges ahead, or lose their lives.
I love putting in irony and double meanings in my writings, but I hate repeating words, especially within the same page. The majority of my stories leads down the "everything keeps going to shit, I'm going to kill myself in the end and every reader knows it, but I'll never actually decide it until the last few chapters".
How to stray from the stereotype grimdark bs?
>>8222752
I've tried to write to write a bunch of times, but I always lost interest in the story I was telling. Maybe I'm just obsessed with writing a novel and should focus to short stories.
