#walking monologues the lot of them 🤦‍♂️

[stick-named-figure]

i wrote a bit under the cut. i think i got most of my main ideas across but if you have questions i'm perfectly ready to talk about it.

one of the things i think is important about writing angst (and mental anguish, hurtfics, so on) is that satisfying ones typically have a point beyond just the suffering (though "pointless" pieces still have literary value). it does not mean that the point must be that the character is comforted, ambiguous ends and unresolved troubles can still be a good read.

i treat angst as a vehicle to state something about a character. i tend to do a lot of introspection and patternmaking (which is likely a part of me being autistic) and then use the conclusions i come to in my writing.

people (and then by extension, characters) do not typically do things for no reason. things may be done on a whim, but that whim is the reason, and so on. thus behavior in my writing is cause -> effect. characters often don't know the explicit cause of their behavior when i write them or how their past shapes their specific actions.

example that in my fic "shelled out" is that purple is angry about the situation with the ender dragon. on paper, the reason is that it's an example of a dragon (which in this universe is an animal) caring enough about it's progeny that it would burn a village down for them. there's this frustration that purr's parent could not do the same.

on the writing itself, i saw this post the other day, which is how i tend to write. while this one is about physical pain, a similar concept can be applied to anger, sadness, and other emotions. a character experiencing emotions may not be able to identify and vocalize said emotions, but they are likely still acting on them.

Ah idk how to ask this but yunno- angst is a good way of developing a character, andd uh since most of y'all are good at it-

could you mayybe teach me ?