Please Don't Do Some Of These Things - Blog Posts

Exactly!

And i gotta ask, I cannot be the only one who sees these things, like

Writing tips to help get published! Problems an editor always has to point out!

And I'm just like, please don't do that?? As a reader, i do not agree?

For example, i saw one guy saying, "Don't use one-off side characters. Combine them into one character, so that the batista the MC sees everyday, the secondary love interest, and the childhood are all 1 3-dimensional person instead of 3 1-dimenaional characters."

I saw that and i just immediately thought, please god no, don't do that. I love random side characters! I hate it when it feels like the MC's world is so tiny, like they literally only interact with 2 or 3 people. I wanna see how they are with strangers! How strangers percieve them! It makes the world feel larger!

And i admit, i am NOT a writer, at all. But I read CONSTANTLY. I'm part of the audience, and i prefer when my book/fanfiction does the opposite of what professionals tell them to.

Please tell me I'm not the only one

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