A Writing Blog

It’s an issue that comes up for many creatives across the board. The sense of entitlement to art is really frustrating. I don’t have a response to someone who blatantly refuses to accept that what they’re doing is harmful. 

I’ve come to the conclusion that most people simply cannot appreciate the labor it takes to make these works because they have never been able to do it themselves. If you make art, in any form, you are exposing your most vulnerable points to the world, so it’s really hurtful when someone says that it’s not worth anything. 

Asking for that kind of acknowledgment is asking for recognition as a person, for empathy from another human being, which is probably the biggest struggle we have in the modern era. So, and I know that I sound like a sap when I put it this way, I view it as a question of how you continue to be kind when there is horror and evil in this world. When the world has shown you time and time again that it would rather crush you into dust than to let you be something more. You just have to do it, or you become like them.

That’s pretty tricky! Personally, Ithink that if you never show this character, the character will notbe mourned. This is because readers generally attach and identifywith characters that they see in action. You will have to walk a fineline of revealing the dead character through your living ones, but ifyou veer too much on talking about how great they used to be, you mayend up alienating your reader. It’s setting up your dead character tofail, in a sense, because now there’s all these expectations. Atleast for me, when I heard how great someone is, I see it as achallenge for them to prove themselves. Not the healthiest, but I seethis reaction in others as well.

I’ll go into an example of how to do it below!

EXAMPLE BELOW - (RED QUEEN SPOILERS)