You don't need to have daddy issue to wish Dalinar would look you in the eyes and tell you he's proud of you. That's just a normal reasonable thing to want. Also nice shirt
@@millytheotterlover1680Basically a man of absolute honour. Never the easy way out if it is the dishonourable route. Holds everyone to this standard, but most of all himself. Bit more complicated than that with his past of being a General/Warlord but yea, he is a man that everyone, even if they hate/ridicule him, all have to admit he is honest and honourable in pretty much everything he does. Read the books , they’re amazing 👍
@@millytheotterlover1680Guy gets sick of being a warlord and decides to be the most stand up honorable guy possible, gets fed up everyone else wont do it and immediately becomes defacto king because everyone wont stop being arseholes. Basically, the fantasy novel version of the chad meme. Basically everyone else in the books, including all the other protagonists and good guys, are way less stand up than him. btw, reccomend the graphic audio audiobook versions of the Stormlight books. Covers a lot of the writers issues and are an amazing experience.
as a story author myself (i write comics LOL, it’s similar), sometimes i notice…patterns…in my own writing that make me go, “now, there’s a lot to unpack here, but let’s just throw the whole suitcase away!”
I was writing a character once and I started to realize hang on this character is familiar... It was the MC's grandfather and then I realized holy crap this is my grandfather(for context I was trying to base the grandfather off of myself). Also most of the side characters are based off of me and my family and a lot of it is my family's dynamic lol. Also the MC's paternal grandmother and grandfather are based off of my grandma and papa. Being that the MCS grandmother is this rough tough old woman who is taking care of her husband who has dementia and trying to keep it a secret. The whole don't say anything about the writer's personal life from the book kind of doesn't apply here... The only original thing in my story is the main character and his storyline, most of the rest of the drama is stuff that's happened in my personal life, daddy issues and all, lol. However I do have a lot of evil uncles in my story, but I don't have any bad relationships with my uncles, just absentee fathers.
I feel like every character has a part of myself, but also can’t be too much like myself, or I over identify and it just gets weird. One reason I have trouble writing contemporary.
Alternatively writing the opposite tropes where there is literally the best dad in existence can also be a sign of daddy issues where u crave validation and love so you get second-hand therapy by giving your characters the father you always wanted😭 Anyway😀
I was reading this one author and it was like. Or you're trans and never had the chance to figure it out or you're just into some really fucking weird shit
oh mood hence why i thought book club member 1was gonna hit member 2 with "i don't have daddy issues, i have a praise kink. ... there, now we're both uncomfortable 👁️👄👁️"
Just found you and i love that “audiobooks are valid” Never have the time or attention span to see a wall of text but hearing it while working is the best
Same. I used to read in nearly all of my spare time. Then I had a baby that needed a lot of extra care, I couldn't even hold a cup of coffee for a few minutes, let alone a book for hours. When I went back to work, I realized I could listen to audiobooks while I worked and it's been a life saver. That's around 7 hours a day, 4x a week that I'm able to listen to a book. I also went from overthinking about and absolutely hating my job to loving it again lol.
I have a fantastic relationship with my dad. That doesn't stop me from wanting Sanderson's Dad figures (not father because Attica Smedry is the worst, but Grampa Smedry is the best) to tell me they are proud of me. Kiin needs to wrap me up in a hug and tell me everything is gonna be okay. Dalinar and Kelsier need to tell me that I have done good and grown well. Grampa Smedry needs to come whisk me away on an adventure. Good dads are good dads.
This happened in the novel I wrote. Every dad in the story was toxic or controlling or neglectful or absent. It's really impressive the range of bad dads I managed to get in there without realizing I was doing it. The only good dads in the book only existed in people's backstories. I do have problems with my dad that have caused me years of pain, but he was primarily emotionally neglectful, and he wanted to be a good dad. I just think we was depressed, so all of these dads don't even resemble him!
Love your Hoid shirt! Also Daliner is a great example of a man who wasn't great but learned, grew, and became a better person for everything he went through! Who wouldn't want someone like that telling you they are proud of you.
My friend was telling me about a few books from this author she was reading and I told her I was sure the author had an abduction f*fish and she was like “whaaat? Nooo” And then described like three more plots that involved the FL being kidnapped by the ML and realized I was right. Edit: also, as someone who (hobby) writes, the author will *always* insert something from their personal life, whether or not they realize it. It is impossible to write without putting any bias from their own life. This can be political views, personality traits, opinions on certain types of foods, etc... Although, you can’t often tell what those biases actually are. For example, you can have an author who bases one habit on something they do, one on something they’ve seen someone else do, one they think is cool, one they made up, et cetera, but you can never know which is which. I will say, I’ve learned a lot about _myself_ from what I’ve written. Like, I’ll write something, and realize that I’d just given myself shitty therapy.
I just started reading way of kings and read about Dalinar. I have an amazing relationship with my father, but heck I already would die for him. Yes I’d like for him to tell me he’s proud of me! I adore kal but if he trash talks my boy again we gonna have issues 😂
@@nightwolfnordberg9476 oh fun! I’m just finishing the first book myself! I’ll be jumping into the next one after a quick pallet cleanser 😂. I can only take so much second hand rage at Kal going “he’s another light eyes” about Dalinar 😂 enjoy your reading!
@@nightwolfnordberg9476 oh don’t worry! It’s not a spoiler! 😂 he does it throughout the whole book! He actually just says it about EVERY light eyes 😂. I’m not a person to Spoil anything important in a book
Edgar Allan Poe, despite writing some of the most iconic spooky stories and poems and his wife/cousin dying when she was young, he actually wasn’t a depressed dude. He was a party guy, constantly going out to have fun. Edit: I’m sorry guys, I didn’t mean he wasn’t depressed, and I’m sorry if I came off as someone who looked down on or misunderstood those with depression. Trust me, I have lived with and survived depression before and I feel horrible that what I said came off as condescending or arrogant because that was not my intent. I’ve always had problems with words and I love when people help me. All I meant to say is that Edgar Allen Poe didn’t just sit in his house all day writing sad poems like what most people thought.
That doesnt mean he wasnt depressed or didnt have experience with Extreme bouts of depression. By all means Im not an expert on his private life, and Im not saying hes depressed because he wrote about depression, but saying he wasnt depressed because he was a party guy, isnt necessarily the best evidence?
I can see it. I'm Asexual and couldn't care less for romance in real life or in movies, and yet... an awful lot of my characters end up hugging and holding hands and forcing me to rewrite their previous scenes to add more build up. Maybe it's just a natural consequence of my philosophy of contrasting darkness with light in my storytelling. Yeah, this thief has had a rough life and just escaped the spider dimension, but that's not going to stop her from giving her friend moral support and advice (that advice being that her friend should punch her abusive brother if she ever sees him again)
i’ve been rereading one of my favorite book series and just now noticed in almost every book there’s a weird subplot about incests and sometimes it’s not even important to the story it’s just there and i don’t wanna say anything about the author but writing about incest 3 times in one series is definitely to many times
When I started writing (which is a very very slow work in progress) I realized all of my stories have very similar main characters and love interests. Main character is parts of myself I have a love/hate relationship with, which the main character struggles with as well. The love interest is the things about myself which I used to have and I wish I had nurtured into my personality, but due to a difficult upbringing I now feel like I have lost those traits forever, and wish I could get them back. The love interest also is the personality of my ideal partner obviously (at least to a certain degree, depending on how similar the main character is to myself). I hated that realization.
Reminds me of things I've wrote that weren't supposed to directly relate to my problems but they ended up bringing things to light, anyhow. It's kind of impossible not to incorporate something personal into writing, at least if you're not writing with a big team
One of the authors i read write extremely descriptive books, to the point where you would think that they had gone through it themselves (i am convinced they have, there is no way someone can go into that much detail). The two books i have read, which where fiction books (i hope), where about human trafficking and domestic violence and i literally nearly cried. If you want to check them out her name is H D Carlton, and be warned, her books are SPICY
My favorite author often has fairly large age gaps between romantic couples (not in a creepy way, the power is always balanced). I eventually learned that her husband is like 20 years younger than her.
As someone resolving her daddy issues, I always have the good dads be characters who ARENT they're bio dads💀 And if the bio dads are good they die pretty quickly or aren't in many scenes lol
DUDE I'M JUST MINDLESSLY SCROLLING AND YOU GET AN INSTANT SUB FOR RIPPING ME OUT OF MY FUNK FOR SAYING THE NAME DALINAR KHOLIN also your hoid shirt is perfection.
I really hope people follow that rule 😅 I'm currently writing a novel and my family + my friends have asked if they can read it as soon as it's out. I said no because I'm not comfortable with people I know personally/as a person reading it...they probably wouldn't follow the rule and associate my characters or plot with my personality which I do not want.
I've noticed a thing. If an author doesn't believe a thing, the narration about that thing will largely be that a character feels that way. If an author does believe the thing, the narrator will state it as fact repetitively (this excludes satirical works, of course)
I'm definitely having this with an author right now. I really enjoyed a lot of books by this author when I was a kid and I want to specify they aren't book specifically for kids or anything they were definitely from my mom's shelf they just happen to be interesting books with dragons in them that were family appropriate. I tried to go back and read some of them again recently. I'm starting to think he doesn't know what a woman is. He only seems to know how to write three women. He has this very distinct maiden mother crone situation, where every woman in it is either a pretty young girl who is very dateable and is looking for a man, a mother figure who is no longer specifically desirable but is usually powerful in some way smart and kind of annoying in a naggy way, or an old lady who is definitely not attractive and usually very annoying in an a naggy way but she's generally smart and very powerful. And it just makes for really unpleasant read actually. Especially coupled with his thing where he seems to think that everyone getting into relationships is the ultimate goal and it's totally reasonable for it to happen at speeds a Hallmark movie couldn't match. These people are ready to get married in one week or less or your money back. Like throw themselves in front of a dragon for each other amounts of love. I have an entire shelf of my bookcase for these from when I inherited them from my mom during one of her moves and I'm trying to decide now if the shelf space would better serve for something else that I enjoy more or if I would feel bad getting rid of these considering how much I loved them before and how there are bits and pieces of them I still enjoy it's just not the characters.
I'm so grateful for my dad. He's there for me emotionally more than my mother ever has ever been able to, but she has gotten slightly better. She has provided for me practically though.
If you're okay with YA fiction with less complex writing than The Stormlight Archives, but with no less emotional conveyance, try Tamora Pierce's books from her Emelan Universe. It's a trio of quartets, the Circle of Magic, The Circle Opens, and The Circle Reforged. There are no actual fathers involved at all, but there are multiple fatherly figures. Tris (and the rest of the kids to varying degrees) has Nikolai Goldeye, Daja has Frostpine, and Sandry in particular (and the rest of the kids as well) has Duke Vedris. Sandry is related to Duke Vedris, but it is a relatively distant relationship (he's her great-uncle) but for every other relationship it's all found family and it's so sweet.
I wrote a scene of a character being offered fatherly support, then sent it to one of my friends. I asked if she liked it. She said "fuck you", I said, "perfect". It's called market research, and if you don't have daddy issues of your own to draw from, friend-sourced is absolutely fine.
Mine are small. My dad shows his love through acts of service and I've never gotten the affirmation I need from him. But that barely even issues. I've learned to live with it
Ya I definitely assume things about the author based on what they write. And I assume things about people based on what they read. Books are a window to your deepest thoughts and desires
IT IS ALWAYS IMPORTANT TO KNOW THAT THE CREATIONS OF AN AOUTHOR ARETHE REFLECTIONS OF HIS/HER VIEWS TOWARD SOCIETY AND EVERYTHING. WE GOT THAT TO ENJOY, IT IS DELIGHTFUL FOR US, AND WE HAVE TO SHOW RESPECT, CONCERNS AND COMPLEMENTS IN A HEALTHY WAY FOR THAT.
We write what fascinates us, but a character that fascinates us typically has some underlying psychological principle that inspires their conception. For instance, almost every heroic character i write dies, and usually dies alone, but that's bc i believe that great heroism is defined by great sacrifice.
Franz Kafka. If you ever heard about Kafkaesque, most of that comes down to Kafka having an unhealthy relationship with his dad. He wrote a book that might as well have had the title "daddy issues". The edition for german schools now is 100 pages a story about a guy turning into a bug and his dad being grossed out by it, and 50 pages is a letter in which he tells his father about his daddy issues
Most of the OCs i write have a terrible/abusive father and a dead/absent mother when I'm the exact opposite, i have a loving father and an alive mother, my OCs also normally end up getting a father figure who is exactly like my comfort character/s
I have them, but I also have mommy issues, and my oldest sister is my mother figure (since she practically raised me, being 10 years older than I am), and she's probably the only person in my life I have ever heard say that they're proud of me.
I dropped a story after one too many descriptions of young girls looking not just pretty but irresistibly attractive. At first it was the main characters younger aunt, then his wife, and on and on it emphasized how young and attractive they looked. The scene that had me have enough was when he found a soulmate who was really uncomfortably young and rather than having a good fun time it described how they were laying on bed together so tired after all the fun they had. It was disturbing and I haven't been able to forget it yet. I hope I can soon.
Sanderson is really good at writing things he doesn't know or are outside his comfort zone. (He's Mormon, but he writes a lot of interesting cultures and religions, and even though he's a "fade to black" type when it comes to romance, the few times he's dabbled in writing romance it's been REALLY good *cough* Warbreaker romance was so cute.)
Heheheh... Legend of the Seeker was TOTALLY written by someone who loved him a dominatrix. I wasn't sure at first but then it was unquestionable. I've never seen another show geared towards teens that had that much red leather...
I write bad parents rarely, because my family is so nice it’s hard to comprehend for me. For some reason, evil siblings or uncles are fine, even though I love mine unconditionally! 😅
Funnily enough, there is a kind of literary analysis wherein you take into account the biography of the author when analyzing one of their works. My English teacher taught me and my classmates this while we were examining “A Day’s Wait” by Ernest Hemingway. She concluded that Schatz’s confusion of Fahrenheit with Celsius and him worrying about dying was based on Hemingway’s lack of knowledge in medicine when he was still working as a driver during a world war, which made him think that he was going to die when he was put in a hospital.
I also feel like it can go both ways. You might see it as every dad to be bad, but you might also instead only write about good relationships, to have a better world. Disclaimer: I have a good relationship with my father. But, while I don't read, I build my world with the intent of making it... nicer.
I love picking up repeating patterns in stories. It's not a game, but ace attorney. I counted it a while ago, there is like 3 biological parents in the entire series who aren't dead or absent for another reason (usually arrested).
Nah that’s like Tommy Lee jones or Morgan freeman levels of satisfaction right there. If any of those three people told me they’re proud of me I’d be riding that high for the rest of my life
🤩ive been watching donghua's( basically i watched two) based off of mxtx's light novels (mdzs and tgcf) and im seeing a few charecters(basically the main lead) parents like die at the age of 17 or close. I mean in mdzs the MC's parents die when he was like 2 or smth but besides that there are 3 charecters parents which im talking about.
My personal rule is that if a trope/characteristic appears in one book, it is probably just a choice. If it happens in 2 books, it might just be a favorite trope or something. If it happens in 3 or more books, they either have personal experience or a strange obsession 😂 Edit just in case, this obviously doesn't apply to a series/spinoff of a series, obviously a trait will appear multiple times if it is either a big part of the universe or a recurring character hahahaha
That's not fair i have a wonderful relationship with my father but of course i want Dalinar Kohlin to tell me he's proud of me I'm human
😂 yes! Why can’t I have both??
Who is Dalinar Kohlin
@@Thebladeofchaos4 he's one of the main characters from the Storm light Archive
@@Thebladeofchaos4I love your profile picture its one of the best pieces of fanart of Nico
@@Thebladeofchaos4read the Stormlight archive
You don't need to have daddy issue to wish Dalinar would look you in the eyes and tell you he's proud of you. That's just a normal reasonable thing to want. Also nice shirt
Sooo... who's this Dalinar guy?
@@millytheotterlover1680he's one of the main characters in The Stormlight Archive by Brandon Sanderson. Very good books
@keetongu445 Interesting. What are his main traits. Based on the comments section, he's very admirable, so I'm very curious.
@@millytheotterlover1680Basically a man of absolute honour. Never the easy way out if it is the dishonourable route. Holds everyone to this standard, but most of all himself. Bit more complicated than that with his past of being a General/Warlord but yea, he is a man that everyone, even if they hate/ridicule him, all have to admit he is honest and honourable in pretty much everything he does. Read the books , they’re amazing 👍
@@millytheotterlover1680Guy gets sick of being a warlord and decides to be the most stand up honorable guy possible, gets fed up everyone else wont do it and immediately becomes defacto king because everyone wont stop being arseholes.
Basically, the fantasy novel version of the chad meme. Basically everyone else in the books, including all the other protagonists and good guys, are way less stand up than him.
btw, reccomend the graphic audio audiobook versions of the Stormlight books. Covers a lot of the writers issues and are an amazing experience.
Why did I think she was gonna say "we dont talk about the book club" as rule no 1 lmaoooo 😭😭😭
I was waiting for that!
Sameee
Same 💀
Well, that's not Rule 1, that's Rule 0
and then the video ends lmao
as a story author myself (i write comics LOL, it’s similar), sometimes i notice…patterns…in my own writing that make me go, “now, there’s a lot to unpack here, but let’s just throw the whole suitcase away!”
This 😂
I have too much sympathy for imaginary characters to write OCs with me as their god.
I feel that in the depths of my writer soul.
I was writing a character once and I started to realize hang on this character is familiar... It was the MC's grandfather and then I realized holy crap this is my grandfather(for context I was trying to base the grandfather off of myself). Also most of the side characters are based off of me and my family and a lot of it is my family's dynamic lol. Also the MC's paternal grandmother and grandfather are based off of my grandma and papa. Being that the MCS grandmother is this rough tough old woman who is taking care of her husband who has dementia and trying to keep it a secret. The whole don't say anything about the writer's personal life from the book kind of doesn't apply here... The only original thing in my story is the main character and his storyline, most of the rest of the drama is stuff that's happened in my personal life, daddy issues and all, lol.
However I do have a lot of evil uncles in my story, but I don't have any bad relationships with my uncles, just absentee fathers.
I feel like every character has a part of myself, but also can’t be too much like myself, or I over identify and it just gets weird. One reason I have trouble writing contemporary.
Alternatively writing the opposite tropes where there is literally the best dad in existence can also be a sign of daddy issues where u crave validation and love so you get second-hand therapy by giving your characters the father you always wanted😭
Anyway😀
aww
Your message makes 0 sense.
calling me OUT
@@derekyoung1721 why?
Idk I feel like that’s just my dad. And my mom. I don’t think anyone could do better.
Bruh this would be me
"whats the first rule of book club?"
"we don't talk about book club"
"no that's fight club"
👍🏼
Same.
Same difference
Well if y'all read a lot of smutty books makes sense why not talking about book club could be valid 😂
I allways play the "try to identify the authors fetish" game while reading.
I was reading this one author and it was like. Or you're trans and never had the chance to figure it out or you're just into some really fucking weird shit
REAL
oh mood
hence why i thought book club member 1was gonna hit member 2 with "i don't have daddy issues, i have a praise kink. ... there, now we're both uncomfortable 👁️👄👁️"
Just found you and i love that “audiobooks are valid”
Never have the time or attention span to see a wall of text but hearing it while working is the best
I used to read 3 books a week. Now I prefer audio books (NEVER thought I would). I can get so much done while I listen 😅
Same. I used to read in nearly all of my spare time. Then I had a baby that needed a lot of extra care, I couldn't even hold a cup of coffee for a few minutes, let alone a book for hours. When I went back to work, I realized I could listen to audiobooks while I worked and it's been a life saver. That's around 7 hours a day, 4x a week that I'm able to listen to a book. I also went from overthinking about and absolutely hating my job to loving it again lol.
I am the opposite. I do not have the attention span to only focus on audio. I listen to the audio book while I also read
They're a valid form of consuming the content of a book. But it's not reading.
ADHD kicked in hard, audio books are the best way for me to 'read' now-a-days.
I have a fantastic relationship with my dad. That doesn't stop me from wanting Sanderson's Dad figures (not father because Attica Smedry is the worst, but Grampa Smedry is the best) to tell me they are proud of me. Kiin needs to wrap me up in a hug and tell me everything is gonna be okay. Dalinar and Kelsier need to tell me that I have done good and grown well. Grampa Smedry needs to come whisk me away on an adventure. Good dads are good dads.
Don’t forget Wax! He’s an amazing dad!!
Or even mom figures
And Jasnah Kholin
It would feel so satisfying to hear Nivani say she's proud of me
@@LisasComplicated Jasnah scares me too much....
@@MaryLuCrafts GASP.
fair
@@impalednewt Yeah. But most people aren't as comfortable with heights as he and his kid are.
This happened in the novel I wrote. Every dad in the story was toxic or controlling or neglectful or absent. It's really impressive the range of bad dads I managed to get in there without realizing I was doing it.
The only good dads in the book only existed in people's backstories.
I do have problems with my dad that have caused me years of pain, but he was primarily emotionally neglectful, and he wanted to be a good dad. I just think we was depressed, so all of these dads don't even resemble him!
What's the name n where it's available, please have English translation
@@syedasuhanauman2991 sorry 😅 I haven't published it. I wrote it, but I abandoned it before editing was completed.
I don't read enough books with daddy issues, but this is so relatable about the I'm proud of you part😂😂😂
Your comment has over 250 likes. I'm proud of you.
@@christopherkarr1872 thank you
@@devinreds6331 You're more than welcome, little one. I'd have your head on my lap if that were an option on CZcams. All the loveses, Besty.
Love your Hoid shirt! Also Daliner is a great example of a man who wasn't great but learned, grew, and became a better person for everything he went through! Who wouldn't want someone like that telling you they are proud of you.
My friend was telling me about a few books from this author she was reading and I told her I was sure the author had an abduction f*fish and she was like “whaaat? Nooo” And then described like three more plots that involved the FL being kidnapped by the ML and realized I was right.
Edit: also, as someone who (hobby) writes, the author will *always* insert something from their personal life, whether or not they realize it. It is impossible to write without putting any bias from their own life. This can be political views, personality traits, opinions on certain types of foods, etc... Although, you can’t often tell what those biases actually are. For example, you can have an author who bases one habit on something they do, one on something they’ve seen someone else do, one they think is cool, one they made up, et cetera, but you can never know which is which.
I will say, I’ve learned a lot about _myself_ from what I’ve written. Like, I’ll write something, and realize that I’d just given myself shitty therapy.
hey i'd take pretty much anyone telling me they're proud of me. a compliment is a compliment. can never have enough of those
I am proud of you. I’m a mom so this counts.
I just started reading way of kings and read about Dalinar. I have an amazing relationship with my father, but heck I already would die for him. Yes I’d like for him to tell me he’s proud of me! I adore kal but if he trash talks my boy again we gonna have issues 😂
I am half way threw the first book
@@nightwolfnordberg9476 oh fun! I’m just finishing the first book myself! I’ll be jumping into the next one after a quick pallet cleanser 😂. I can only take so much second hand rage at Kal going “he’s another light eyes” about Dalinar 😂 enjoy your reading!
@@Cocolatis thanks
@@Cocolatis and not thanks for that little spolier in the end 😅
@@nightwolfnordberg9476 oh don’t worry! It’s not a spoiler! 😂 he does it throughout the whole book! He actually just says it about EVERY light eyes 😂. I’m not a person to Spoil anything important in a book
Edgar Allan Poe, despite writing some of the most iconic spooky stories and poems and his wife/cousin dying when she was young, he actually wasn’t a depressed dude. He was a party guy, constantly going out to have fun.
Edit: I’m sorry guys, I didn’t mean he wasn’t depressed, and I’m sorry if I came off as someone who looked down on or misunderstood those with depression. Trust me, I have lived with and survived depression before and I feel horrible that what I said came off as condescending or arrogant because that was not my intent. I’ve always had problems with words and I love when people help me. All I meant to say is that Edgar Allen Poe didn’t just sit in his house all day writing sad poems like what most people thought.
That doesnt mean he wasnt depressed or didnt have experience with Extreme bouts of depression. By all means Im not an expert on his private life, and Im not saying hes depressed because he wrote about depression, but saying he wasnt depressed because he was a party guy, isnt necessarily the best evidence?
I can see it. I'm Asexual and couldn't care less for romance in real life or in movies, and yet... an awful lot of my characters end up hugging and holding hands and forcing me to rewrite their previous scenes to add more build up.
Maybe it's just a natural consequence of my philosophy of contrasting darkness with light in my storytelling. Yeah, this thief has had a rough life and just escaped the spider dimension, but that's not going to stop her from giving her friend moral support and advice (that advice being that her friend should punch her abusive brother if she ever sees him again)
Are you SURE about that? 🤨
@@Axius27hugging and holding hands is not sexual 🤨
@@amazinggrapes3045 yes 🤨🤨🤨🤨😂
I love stormlight sm, it’s fun to see other ppl who appreciate the series too!
i’ve been rereading one of my favorite book series and just now noticed in almost every book there’s a weird subplot about incests and sometimes it’s not even important to the story it’s just there and i don’t wanna say anything about the author but writing about incest 3 times in one series is definitely to many times
Are you reading the mortal instruments series 😭😭
When I started writing (which is a very very slow work in progress) I realized all of my stories have very similar main characters and love interests.
Main character is parts of myself I have a love/hate relationship with, which the main character struggles with as well.
The love interest is the things about myself which I used to have and I wish I had nurtured into my personality, but due to a difficult upbringing I now feel like I have lost those traits forever, and wish I could get them back. The love interest also is the personality of my ideal partner obviously (at least to a certain degree, depending on how similar the main character is to myself).
I hated that realization.
I mean, if it appears in multiple books, I'd argue it's safe to assume it reflects something in the author's personal life
Multiple series anyway. Multiple books in the same series may not say as much as it may be a flaw of the character or world.
there's not always a correlation, but sometimes there is!
Reminds me of things I've wrote that weren't supposed to directly relate to my problems but they ended up bringing things to light, anyhow. It's kind of impossible not to incorporate something personal into writing, at least if you're not writing with a big team
If only we could all have Dalinar Kholin tell us he's proud of us.
The Stormlight reference!
You got the year of Sanderson as well! Nice 😂😄
As a writer, I almost feel personally attacked by this realization of my own works lmaooo
One of the authors i read write extremely descriptive books, to the point where you would think that they had gone through it themselves (i am convinced they have, there is no way someone can go into that much detail). The two books i have read, which where fiction books (i hope), where about human trafficking and domestic violence and i literally nearly cried. If you want to check them out her name is H D Carlton, and be warned, her books are SPICY
My favorite author often has fairly large age gaps between romantic couples (not in a creepy way, the power is always balanced). I eventually learned that her husband is like 20 years younger than her.
As someone resolving her daddy issues, I always have the good dads be characters who ARENT they're bio dads💀 And if the bio dads are good they die pretty quickly or aren't in many scenes lol
DUDE I'M JUST MINDLESSLY SCROLLING AND YOU GET AN INSTANT SUB FOR RIPPING ME OUT OF MY FUNK FOR SAYING THE NAME DALINAR KHOLIN also your hoid shirt is perfection.
I too experienced precisely this exact same moment 😂
It’s like worldhopping 🥰
I to experienced this exact same thing and then heard Dalinar's name and went WHAT???!!!
I really hope people follow that rule 😅 I'm currently writing a novel and my family + my friends have asked if they can read it as soon as it's out. I said no because I'm not comfortable with people I know personally/as a person reading it...they probably wouldn't follow the rule and associate my characters or plot with my personality which I do not want.
Most authors write what they know and draw things from their own life experiences
I’m going to say it now: Every character I write is just me psychoanalyzing some facet of my personality 🤣
First rule of the Book Club: We don't talk about the Book Club
That was the first thing i thought! LoL
T-SHIRT BESTIES ❤ also Yes, that would be nice from daddy dalinar 😢
I've noticed a thing. If an author doesn't believe a thing, the narration about that thing will largely be that a character feels that way. If an author does believe the thing, the narrator will state it as fact repetitively (this excludes satirical works, of course)
OH MY GOD I LOVE UR SHIRT. HOID FOR PREZ U GUYS. 🎉🎉🎉
Love the Hoid shirt!!!💚💚💚 and I'd def like to have Dalinar tell me he's proud of me and give he a hug.
I thought it was "don't talk about book club"?
As someone who loves books and the stories they tell but also doesn’t have an attention span when it comes to reading audiobooks have been a lifesaver
I'm definitely having this with an author right now. I really enjoyed a lot of books by this author when I was a kid and I want to specify they aren't book specifically for kids or anything they were definitely from my mom's shelf they just happen to be interesting books with dragons in them that were family appropriate. I tried to go back and read some of them again recently. I'm starting to think he doesn't know what a woman is. He only seems to know how to write three women. He has this very distinct maiden mother crone situation, where every woman in it is either a pretty young girl who is very dateable and is looking for a man, a mother figure who is no longer specifically desirable but is usually powerful in some way smart and kind of annoying in a naggy way, or an old lady who is definitely not attractive and usually very annoying in an a naggy way but she's generally smart and very powerful.
And it just makes for really unpleasant read actually. Especially coupled with his thing where he seems to think that everyone getting into relationships is the ultimate goal and it's totally reasonable for it to happen at speeds a Hallmark movie couldn't match. These people are ready to get married in one week or less or your money back. Like throw themselves in front of a dragon for each other amounts of love. I have an entire shelf of my bookcase for these from when I inherited them from my mom during one of her moves and I'm trying to decide now if the shelf space would better serve for something else that I enjoy more or if I would feel bad getting rid of these considering how much I loved them before and how there are bits and pieces of them I still enjoy it's just not the characters.
Ooh could you share the author's name?
I have a strange feeling I might know who you are talking about, but it's actually super unlikely
@@nonamer3597 Piers Anthony. I loved xanth as a kid, but trying to go back to it later was... disappointing
she said it all so smoothly!
First rule of book club is tell everyone about your book club especially when the topic is not related to the book club
Mentioning Dalinar while wearing a Hoid shirt is pretty great!
Is that a… Hoid shirt?
It is. Now I want one. 😢
No it’s a Wit shirt
No, that's a T-shirt
I'm so grateful for my dad. He's there for me emotionally more than my mother ever has ever been able to, but she has gotten slightly better. She has provided for me practically though.
..I don't have daddy issues. I have the obviously superior mommy issues 😤
You shouldn't assume, but you should definitely look into it. The subconscious is a ridiculously powerful and overwhelming part of personality
me trying to make a non toxic sims family
If you're okay with YA fiction with less complex writing than The Stormlight Archives, but with no less emotional conveyance, try Tamora Pierce's books from her Emelan Universe. It's a trio of quartets, the Circle of Magic, The Circle Opens, and The Circle Reforged.
There are no actual fathers involved at all, but there are multiple fatherly figures. Tris (and the rest of the kids to varying degrees) has Nikolai Goldeye, Daja has Frostpine, and Sandry in particular (and the rest of the kids as well) has Duke Vedris. Sandry is related to Duke Vedris, but it is a relatively distant relationship (he's her great-uncle) but for every other relationship it's all found family and it's so sweet.
This is true all over the place, pretty much mainstream
Meanwhile there's me writing the world's most amazing father figures because mine sucks.
The daddy issues spectrum is great.
The last part tho “ im not judging” got me 😂😂😂
I wrote a scene of a character being offered fatherly support, then sent it to one of my friends. I asked if she liked it. She said "fuck you", I said, "perfect".
It's called market research, and if you don't have daddy issues of your own to draw from, friend-sourced is absolutely fine.
Mine are small. My dad shows his love through acts of service and I've never gotten the affirmation I need from him. But that barely even issues. I've learned to live with it
As someone who is dyslexic "Audiobooks are valid" Really makes my heart happy.
When personal feelings and life get in the way of writing fictional plot-points and lead to points that hit too close to home
This me 😭 I realized a while back that almost all my characters have daddy issues 😅 DEFINITELY not projecting HAH never HAHA
As someone with daddy issues, that is why Dalinar is my favorite character.
I think part of the reason is because they might actually love their dad a lot...
Like, shock factors and impact would hurt them the most....
Ya I definitely assume things about the author based on what they write. And I assume things about people based on what they read. Books are a window to your deepest thoughts and desires
ima cry if i were to write a book, that would be me lmao
"Who doesn't have daddy issues" like I felt that in my soul!!! 😂😂😂😂😅😅😅😅😅😢😢😢😢😢
IT IS ALWAYS IMPORTANT TO KNOW THAT THE CREATIONS OF AN AOUTHOR ARETHE REFLECTIONS OF HIS/HER VIEWS TOWARD SOCIETY AND EVERYTHING. WE GOT THAT TO ENJOY, IT IS DELIGHTFUL FOR US, AND WE HAVE TO SHOW RESPECT, CONCERNS AND COMPLEMENTS IN A HEALTHY WAY FOR THAT.
This reminds me of rp heavy dnd games I've been in. People tell on themselves so hard by how they make their characters and backstories XD
We write what fascinates us, but a character that fascinates us typically has some underlying psychological principle that inspires their conception. For instance, almost every heroic character i write dies, and usually dies alone, but that's bc i believe that great heroism is defined by great sacrifice.
I’m more than proud of You girl 💜🪡💙
Franz Kafka.
If you ever heard about Kafkaesque, most of that comes down to Kafka having an unhealthy relationship with his dad.
He wrote a book that might as well have had the title "daddy issues".
The edition for german schools now is 100 pages a story about a guy turning into a bug and his dad being grossed out by it, and 50 pages is a letter in which he tells his father about his daddy issues
Most of the OCs i write have a terrible/abusive father and a dead/absent mother when I'm the exact opposite, i have a loving father and an alive mother, my OCs also normally end up getting a father figure who is exactly like my comfort character/s
This is how I feel reading Mercedes Lackey and her May- December romances in nearly every book of hers I've read
I have them, but I also have mommy issues, and my oldest sister is my mother figure (since she practically raised me, being 10 years older than I am), and she's probably the only person in my life I have ever heard say that they're proud of me.
I LOVE YOUR HOID SHIRT!!!
DAHLINAR KHOLIN that name drop made me so happy oh my goodness.
I was so not expecting the Blackthorn to be referenced on a random short.
I have been breaking this rule a lot with the selection series… there’s a lot to unpack there
I dropped a story after one too many descriptions of young girls looking not just pretty but irresistibly attractive. At first it was the main characters younger aunt, then his wife, and on and on it emphasized how young and attractive they looked. The scene that had me have enough was when he found a soulmate who was really uncomfortably young and rather than having a good fun time it described how they were laying on bed together so tired after all the fun they had. It was disturbing and I haven't been able to forget it yet. I hope I can soon.
Hahaha Didn't expect to feel so called out at the end. Dalinar Kholin is my all time favorite character in anything 😅😅
*me casually having most of the villains a father figure and rarely mother figure*
Yes I love the Hoid for president shirt. I wish I could find a fun place to wear it.
I HAVE THE SAME SHIRT! I'm very happy right now lol.
I appreciate the audiobooks are valid, because I have trouble with reading, but still love to so audiobooks are a good source for me
Sanderson is really good at writing things he doesn't know or are outside his comfort zone. (He's Mormon, but he writes a lot of interesting cultures and religions, and even though he's a "fade to black" type when it comes to romance, the few times he's dabbled in writing romance it's been REALLY good *cough* Warbreaker romance was so cute.)
Nice Stormlight reference lol. I’m almost done with the series and it’s AWESOME
I mean, you don't see she has a Wit shirt on too?
Her: “You know the first rule of book club”
Me: “Don’t talk about book club?”
Heheheh... Legend of the Seeker was TOTALLY written by someone who loved him a dominatrix. I wasn't sure at first but then it was unquestionable. I've never seen another show geared towards teens that had that much red leather...
Im the opposite lol. I give my characters the parental figure that I always wished I had, so they can experience the joy I never got
OMG THE HOID SHIRT!!!
I write bad parents rarely, because my family is so nice it’s hard to comprehend for me. For some reason, evil siblings or uncles are fine, even though I love mine unconditionally! 😅
Funnily enough, there is a kind of literary analysis wherein you take into account the biography of the author when analyzing one of their works. My English teacher taught me and my classmates this while we were examining “A Day’s Wait” by Ernest Hemingway. She concluded that Schatz’s confusion of Fahrenheit with Celsius and him worrying about dying was based on Hemingway’s lack of knowledge in medicine when he was still working as a driver during a world war, which made him think that he was going to die when he was put in a hospital.
I also feel like it can go both ways. You might see it as every dad to be bad, but you might also instead only write about good relationships, to have a better world.
Disclaimer: I have a good relationship with my father. But, while I don't read, I build my world with the intent of making it... nicer.
I love picking up repeating patterns in stories. It's not a game, but ace attorney. I counted it a while ago, there is like 3 biological parents in the entire series who aren't dead or absent for another reason (usually arrested).
Nah that’s like Tommy Lee jones or Morgan freeman levels of satisfaction right there. If any of those three people told me they’re proud of me I’d be riding that high for the rest of my life
THE HOID SHIRT YESSSS
I feel this when reading Robert Jordan's "The Wheel of Time"
I usually like to put at least apart of me in my writing!
I LOVE THIS SM
I LOVE YOUR HOID SHIRT OMGOSH, HOID FOR PRESIDENT!!!! Also who doesn’t want Dalinar Kholin to tell them that he’s proud of them?
Holy shit you just opened a Stormlight Archive shaped box that I was NOT ready for you to open.
🤩ive been watching donghua's( basically i watched two) based off of mxtx's light novels (mdzs and tgcf) and im seeing a few charecters(basically the main lead) parents like die at the age of 17 or close. I mean in mdzs the MC's parents die when he was like 2 or smth but besides that there are 3 charecters parents which im talking about.
My personal rule is that if a trope/characteristic appears in one book, it is probably just a choice. If it happens in 2 books, it might just be a favorite trope or something. If it happens in 3 or more books, they either have personal experience or a strange obsession 😂
Edit just in case, this obviously doesn't apply to a series/spinoff of a series, obviously a trait will appear multiple times if it is either a big part of the universe or a recurring character hahahaha