My frustration with modern stories and my own

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I have been trying to work on Lorekeeper which is a response to RWBY

and by that I mean in a Digimon vs Pokemon (except RWBY is the ‘Pokemon’ and Lorekeeper is my ‘Digimon’)

And I already have been writing characters that are the same type in rwby but with a different outcome along with some other characters from other series that I hate how they ended

like Luminere and Nikkis are a response to what they did to Jaune and Pyrrha

Bridget and Elio are a response of what I dread they might to Blake and Sun

(insert Neptune substitute here) and Tekla are a response to Weiss and Neptune alone with Kamina and Yoko and a teensy teensy bit of Anakin and Padme(well as fitting as they were I don’t think it would kill anyone to make a story where things go a bit different for characters like them)

future characters I make are a response to what I felt in regards happened to Jack and Ashi and Nia and Simon

ect ect ect

and keep in mind, I have ditched RWBY because I really feel like what they did with arkos, they’re gonna do it again with another paring (Sun and Blake to be exact) and everyone is gonna praise how it contributes to the narrative, how it hurts so good like an emotional masochist, how realistic it is and how it’s gonna make Blake ‘greatful for what she had’ and how as long as they save the world and keep a good attitude, in the end its all worth it, which for me doesn’t cut it anymore. I mean I get the message, I do believe it, but I feel like its being shoved down my throat at this point

Believe me, I used to like this kind of storytelling, but I am run ragged,I am sick of it now, its not enjoyable for me anymore. I want characters to get happy ending again, I want character parings go through the wringer, let that be enough, and make it in the end. I’m getting sick of people thinking that they’re invincible all the time because they’re aren’t dead. I personally think we have become so desensitized to the pain of their hardships that death and bitter-sweetness is thee only thing that gets through our skulls. That we exploit “power through the bad” and “keep moving forward” and that they will “hold a place in their heart and memorialize them” as means to target characters like them and use them for such plot devices and that only sitcoms can have the kinds of things I like, because that’s “the rules” and “new standards”

I see this as Options, not standards, nobody should be obligated to follow them if they don’t want to and nobody should be looked down on or seen as inferior in refusing to do so. Like those who do like this stuff are “more evolved” and “more mature” that “people” don’t find it interesting as if their kind only count. That you have to be an “aspie”, an “autistic”, or “insane” to like this because apparently no true “sane”, “intelligent”, “normal” person wouldn’t
 
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I think I get what you’re saying, but…cmon man. Format your thoughts a bit more. Most of us have zero context when you start ranting about digimon or whatever
 
Sorry, there’s more to it but the forum has limited words space, I was actually gonna add more but got tired and went to bed
 
Im not sure which forum I can express my feelings as a writer otherwise, other forums ussally just bite my head off, plus I was going to add more but I had to call it a night yesterday plus the limited characters allowed on a post
 
If people on other forums are “biting your head off” I think it’s because you’re not communicating clearly. There’s a lot of rambling, disconnected thoughts and it’s tough to unpack.

Just an observation, take it for what its worth. I’m sure you have interesting thoughts to share, you just need to package them in a way the reader can follow.
 
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There is no such thing as “modern stories.” That’s why we can still enjoy an ancient Greek play. There are certain standards that should remain in storytelling and which are generally universal. Just because - across all media - except most movie superheroes - we get dark, dark, dark, more dark and more dark after that, doesn’t mean you have to follow a trend. Write the kinds of stories that you find worthwhile. Everyone with a fake name on the internet is not in charge of how you can or should write. Write down the elements you want in your stories if you have to.

As a working editor, I see mostly badly written and just plain bad manuscripts by people who have adopted standards that are superficial or wrong. There is such a thing as right and wrong.
 
I asipire to be an original fiction writer, but I have a dillema which is the other half of my post mentions in regards to my own fictional characters

I already have been writing characters that are the same type in rwby but with a different outcome along with some other characters from other series that I hate how they ended

like Luminere and Nikkis are a response to what they did to Jaune and Pyrrha

Bridget and Elio are a response of what I dread they might to Blake and Sun

(insert Neptune substitute here) and Tekla are a response to Weiss and Neptune alone with Kamina and Yoko and a teensy teensy bit of Anakin and Padme(well as fitting as they were I don’t think it would kill anyone to make a story where things go a bit different for characters like them)

I plan on killing their significant others so my main character can resurrect them with new power(and he nearly gets killed by the Greek Titan of Time, Chronos, for it)
But part of me wants do it order to give Rooster Teeth, Gainax, Takahiro(writer of Akame Ga Kill), and George RR Martin the finger and say “HAHAHA! ALL I REINCARNATED YOUR CHARACTERS AND GAVE THEM WHAT YOU TOOK FROM THEM, SUCK IT.” and I know thats REALLY immature
It’s just, I really got personal in terms of resonating with these characters, and what happened at the end of V3 I took it VERY personally…like I seriously fell into an OCD depression because of it…

I just want to prove them all wrong…and give hope to those who these writers had hurt and disappointed.
 
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Completely incoherent.
If indeed you have aspirations to be a writer, you need to write so readers can understand what you are saying.
 
Good Lord. I know I just turned fifty-five, but my brain must be more addled and worn out than I thought. I can’t make head nor tail of the original post, and what’s more, I’m sure that’s my fault, as I can well imagine anyone under forty has no trouble comprehending it. I wasted my youth on Shakespeare, Milton and Pope; I should have been reading computer manuals! ☹️
 
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I know, Im kinda embarrassed, I need to set things straight, I just kept it bottled up so much sorry to everyone who got confused by this, hopefully next time I can make a better explanation
 
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I know, Im kinda embarrassed, I need to set things straight, I just kept it bottled up so much sorry to everyone who got confused by this, hopefully next time I can make a better explanation
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Oh, now I understand you better since you explained. I have had that experience of something that was bottled up rushing out in such a torrent that it seemed incoherent. Thanks!
 
May I make a humble suggestion that you start writing in sentences? A grammatically correct sentence is the building block of good writing, and it needs appropriate punctuation so people know where your thought starts and ends. Don’t string everything together with commas.
May I ask how old you are?
 
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