#zigzagmidas

(* I don’t know if i would describe it as something as life devoting as that, i mean, in the end, this is something i do for fun, even when i’m working.)(* You definitely need passion and a drive to create things, but I think once you start to bury yourself under the pressure of the “need” to do it, it starts to become less fun and more a job to get over with.)

(* You can very easily drown your desire to draw anything by piling on the pressure. With my work, especially my paid work, If I sit and drill into my mind that this is of life and death importance, of course i’m gonna choke when it counts.)

(* That’s how many artists end up with an artblock that they cant overcome, even with force or hiatus. Many of my artist friends have ended their drive to draw that way.)

(* Drawing is very much about the desire to draw, the want, the will, once it becomes only a “need”, all those things can quickly fall out of line. That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t work with urgency when being paid, but i know for certain that screaming at myself to be creative only makes it all the more impossible.)

   I hate all of these tropes…Which is why consistently find “adult” writing boring and bland. It’s also unfortunately why I hate my own writing. Yay.   

@zigzagmidas

I definitely find lots of stuff targeted at adults to be full of these tropes, but I’ve also noticed it in stuff targeted at kids. It’s everywhere unfortunately :/ (tho some are definitely more specific in where they pop up)

I used to hate my own writing for similar reasons, because all of my protags were white guys and some of them did follow some of these tropes, because that was how i had absorbed a protagonist should be from media I consumed

but the nice thing about writing things yourself is you can change it. Like all of my protags used to be white guys. now none of them are. I represented traits I have that I’d like to see (queer, physically disabled, autistic ladies - not every protag has all of these traits, but there are a lot more w/ at least some), and other traits i dont have but other people do, because it’d be really unrealistic  and unfortunate implications and kind of exclusionary if there was no poeple of color or no trans people, etc in my stories either*

i guess some of the other stuff mentioned might be a little harder to avoid or unlearn, but sadly i am not a writing expert i haven’t even tried to write in a while

another thing i know is reading authors you don’t normally read can help improve your writing. like if you find your male characters act like are described in the chat post, you can try reading some female authors.

but anyway my favorite thing about writing is that since you’re in charge, if you don’t like it you can take steps towards making it something you do like (tho obviously its really hard -_-)