[#]WritersCoffeeClub Jan. 13 - What's your favorite trope? Do you lean into it for your work or shy away?
A recurring one is the idea of the anti-hero or maybe anti-villain, one who does terrible things out of sympathetic motivations. I have a fascination with the psychology of destruction and harm, why people keep making these choices and justifying them. People also hurt each other in more everyday ways and we are all sometimes the villain in someone else's story. I like the whole idea of the blurred lines between good and evil, that people cannot be so easily categorized.
I definitely lean into this in my own writing, as my stories very often have this kind of ambiguous/sympathetic character who does real harm. It's one reason I have no plans to publish a lot of fiction, because I don't want to repeat myself a lot and become predictable.
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