#bc you want toxicity snd abuse bc u think its the only thing that makes anything interesting | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

nururu · 1 year

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I think it's a lot cooler to show you can understand people different than you, rather than shove every character into a small handful of easily digestible tropes that you can understand. I don't think you're a good writer if you can't empathize with the characters you're writing about and instead have to change their entire personality to fit your trope. I think that's boring and lazy. You should be able to understand multitudes of ppl and personalities if you're going to be a writer. Changing core characteristics in characters because "it's more interesting when they're mentally unwell" is bad, self absorbed, narrow sighted writing. If you can't make characters with good mental health practices and positive relationships, interesting? That's a YOU problem. That only attests to how amateur you are. If you can't have conflict without changing everything about a characters personality? You're a bad writer. Someone's gotta tell y'all this.

#rewriting zoro and luffy and I'll even throw in sanji #as completely different ppl #bc you want toxicity snd abuse bc u think its the only thing that makes anything interesting #youre a bad writer #have fun all you want #do what you want #you can be a bad writer like thats valid #but yall talk with an undeserved confidence and idk #..humility is a great trait #especially when the counter argument to what i say is that #healthy relationships and coping mechanisms are “boring”#like nooooo you just suck at writing

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