#sweetscircus

[cocoppaplay-ephemere]

Sweets Circus.

[electrail]

I went onto that girl's blog and was totally disgusted, honestly. I'm not even Asian (I'm Latina), and I found it INCREDIBLY RACIST. She's not being REAL, she's acting like an entitled child. If I could report entire blogs, I totally would hers, but I guess I'll comfort myself with reporting posts. *Sigh* People these days. (On another note, I LOVE your blog. It's so pretty!)

I know right... she’s just so stubborn in believing that her own opinion is right.. like by now I’d think that she’s just accept it and write a post apologizing, but ?? Like does she seriously not have anything better to do than bash on a group that is already oppressed by their gender and race in western society..

and awe thank you! Your blog is super lovely too! c:

[thewritingbeast-blog]

So, in a story that I'm working on, many of my characters have tragic pasts (i.e. abandoned, parents deceased, bullied, etc.), and it's fairly common in the setting I have. However, it's not like cheerful childhoods are uncommon either, or anything. They're somewhat balanced between happy and depressing. Still, I was wondering, should I be concerned about the amount of angst in my characters' pasts? Thank you.

If your cast of characters have reasonably balanced pasts regarding tragic and cheerful, then you don’t really need to be worried about how angsty the tragic childhoods are. As long as your characters aren’t “competing” with how much angst they’ve had or the struggles they’ve had in their childhoods with each other, then it should be fine - especially if it’s fairly common for your setting.

Make sure that your characters who’ve had cheerful childhoods also don’t “brag” or make a point that they had a perfectly normal or just a better childhood than everyone else, either. Addressing characters’ pasts is usually revealed through small giveaways in dialogue, self-reflection (more common with first-person, though can be revealed through third-person/third-person omniscient), and is pretty much never straight-up talked about unless it comes up in the dialogue (maybe two characters are talking about another one) or becomes relevant to the plot.