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[text ID: Black image with purple text showing the tags from Tumblr user lyriumrain. The tags read as follows: #i’ve been thinking a lot about how you really can just tell whatever story you want #there are components that your story *can* include if you want to #but you don’t have to #there’s a billion trillion stories out there #might as well tell the one you want to tell how you want to tell it. End ID]

Every 21st century piece of writing advice: Make us CARE about the character from page 1! Make us empathize with them! Make them interesting and different but still relatable and likable!

Every piece of classic literature: Hi. It's me. The bland everyman whose only purpose is to tell you this story. I have no actual personality. Here's the story of the time I encountered the worst people I ever met in my life. But first, ten pages of description about the place in which I met them.

#reading this post the first thing to come to mind was wuthering heights #the main characters arrives gets so angry he has a nose bleed and spend like two weeks in bed #he was so forgettable that i forgot he existed and with it i forgot the entire setup of the story #for those who dont know a story from the past is being told to him by the maid while he recovers in bed #it cuts to him occasionally for his input buts its quite rare and doesnt really happen much until the second half #i should reread wuthering heights i think id enjoy it much more if i read it as a comedy #i should also mention that i read it back around the same time i started watching anime. and i started with older anime obviously #like ouran high school host club and fairy tale and soul eater. things with ridiculous nose bleeds #so to crack open a literary classic and the main character immediately getting a nose bleed. i laughed my head off #i still havent finished crime and punishment (i am a cringefail girl sorry) but i love it so much because #the main character is also so very cringefail. hes a nasty stinky boy the wettest of unhatched men #like his views on depression and the way change can restructure our entire lives is poetic mastery dont get me wrong #but only in crime and punishment do you get statements like 'stop you queer fish' and 'if you were a baked onion id buy two of you'#i got that second quote wrong but shhhhh let me have this #but honestly part of why i love fanfic and have started preferring it over regular books is exactly for this reason #you dont have to follow the rules of regular modern writing. you dont have to have a beginning end and climax #you dont have to end on a happy note. you dont have to redeem your main characters foul actions #it can just be sex or just be pain or just be love and theres no need to justify your decisions on it #you really can tell the story EXACTLY as you want to tell it without any filler. and likewise you can read it the same way #its like rereading your favorite part of a book that you lovingly dogearred and getting to ignore the rest of the book again and again <3 #gosh i should get back into reading classic literature and finally finishing macbeth and crime and punishment #they really bring me such joy. my brain is just anti-book-dopamine at the moment #writing #classic literature #charles dickens #as always i am brand new to adding id text captions please be gentle with me

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