i’m not directing this to anyone specific but once upon a time i made a comment to an artist asking why all their characters backstories were so sad/painful/depressing/whatever to which they replied “because otherwise it wouldn’t be interesting :P ”. that was replied to by me immediately unfollowing them. i’m sure anyone who reads this will have a few certain artists on their minds, but i won’t name any names. i’m just saying that a character’s back story doesn’t need to be hellish in order for that character to be interesting.
- Anonymous
That’s a pretty shallow reason to unfollow someone, just because they aren’t telling a story the way YOU want them to. Ever think maybe someone writes their characters that way because that just so happens to be their strength in writing?
People have different writing styles and preferences, and maybe someone prefers to write in the horror/tragedy genre for example.
You can’t just force a horror writer to suddenly write cute happy characters.
Yeah, a character can be interesting without having a shitty backstory, but that doesn’t mean people have to write every type of character to be a good story teller.
I think it’s targeted more for the people who are terrible at writing grimdark but still do because they think nobody would be interested otherwise. The blog they unfollowed probably wasn’t that good.