Part 1
I just want to speak out today about what I'm noticing right now in various stories and how I feel about it.
To be honest, I'm more than disappointed and in part already very annoyed that it's becoming the fashion, and I have to do it, with these endless cliffhangers.
If you do it once in a while, it's fun and keeps the tension, but leaving every chapter half-finished with cliffhangers and then not adding anything for several days is absolutely no joy to read anymore.
On the contrary, it gets on my nerves after a while and destroys any good story and makes me wonder what's wrong with not finishing a chapter?
Which unfortunately now also makes me consider whether I want to read at all, because as I said, it ruins the story.
Equally, I am shocked at how story writing is being used.
I've been writing stories for 26 years and honestly, if I listed my problems, I could write a bestseller. And some people wonder how I manage to be alive at all.
Stories are there to fulfil and enable you to do what your soul craves and immerse yourself in a world that brings you some peace from your problems. That's what writing is for. A healthy amount of drama is good and realistic.
However.
I don't process my problems when I'm allowed to re-bone them over and over again in each of my stories. I don't even run away from them either.
On the contrary, I bathe in self-pity and feed these problems because I constantly bring them back into my life, constantly have them in my thoughts, but I don't change them.
