Oh my God, I don’t know how I managed not to reply to this question — I swear I never saw the notification and only noticed it now.
So… I can’t really tell you exactly why. I naturally gravitate toward tragedy; it comes easily to me to imagine it, write it, and live it (in fact, both NIKE and my Italian story have extremely dramatic female protagonists). Greek literature didn’t really influence that, even though I absolutely loved Greek tragedies in high school.
I like the idea of being able to make readers feel something deeply, and for some reason I do that better when I write tragic things, because I can imprint my own pain into the writing. I genuinely manage to put myself in my protagonists’ shoes, and I carry them in my heart.
One day I hope I’ll be just as capable when it comes to comedy or more positive kinds of writing. Thank you for asking me this — it’s such a beautiful question, and I had honestly never thought about it before.
And sorry again for only replying now, sweetheart