Honestly have to say, for advice for future writers/artists
Don’t listen to people too much. You can totally listen, but don’t follow.
When I first started writing it was only adventure stuff, but I never did anything. I haven’t even finished the 7 fanfictions I had done (sorry to those who actually read the stupid things).
When I finally decided to start writing again, I wanted to write horror, which is one of my favourite genres.
Unfortunately I could never get the whole concept of “horror”.
So my first “horror” short story became a murder mystery that was based off a friend’s novel (which I’m actually going to draw because I’m really proud of it, just with my characters instead, sorry @northerntransylvania).
I tried writing a bunch more with a similar taste in mind, but could never achieve that same feeling of accomplishing something.
So I started making a whole new world. It was from a combination of boredom and the only actual writing ability that I’m really good at is world building.
From that I made characters.
And then I started writing
and continuing the world building.
Eventually I had a novel (It’s almost 300 pages long, which I’m kinda surprised about).
I was really ecstatic (I still am) about it and started talking to everyone I know about it.
Unfortunately, me doing all the research I had done on autopsies, serial killers, psychology, police, the underground, the darkweb, you just about name it I probably researched that shit; I got to know a lot of messed up things.
So when I had told people I had made a mystery novel (mind you, I didn’t even say I made a murder mystery), they were horrified.
They thought it was evil and that was tainted.
I surprisingly wasn’t upset, I was more angry and mad than anything? Mostly because a lot of them were once my really close friends and they had said they didn’t like it.
But you know, I had written in almost every Genre possible, every style that I could think of, but I could never get my drift until I wrote in Mystery.
I might not be as accurate as a real mystery writer, nor will I ever be as famous as some people.
But I write because I enjoy it, not because it’s something that other’s think is cool or horrifying.
Don’t listen to the people who discourage you for who you are or what you love.
Keep going no matter what.