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Hello lovely people,

So, recently I had a friend read through half a story I wrote. Her overall response to it was “well that was depressing.” Honestly, I’m alright with that, considering I was trying to represent a broken world. Broken worlds are depressing. Can’t really get around that.

Except, now I’m torn. Part of me feels obligated to make the story more ‘cheery’ and make it more appealing to readers, while the other part wants to keep it just as it is since this the story I chose to tell, and who cares if it’s sad. Thing is, things get better at the end of the story. That’s when there’s finally hope. I’m just worried that readers won’t ever see that since they will give up on the story as “too depressing” before they ever reach the end.

So, do I go with what I feel like writing? Be flexible for the sake of my readers? Somewhere in between?

I’d love to hear you guys’ thoughts. 🙂