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Storyboarding PSA for comic and fiction writers.
8 years ago
Here's a little something from someone who has to read and write hundreds of pages both academically and for fun; whose been around the world, dances, sings, and does written/painted art, etc.
If your story, comic, or whatever is centering around either A, cheating, or B, a love triangle literally toss it out and start over lol. Love triangles are intensely annoying and designed to create artificial drama and storyline to replace actual plot and writing. They're a crutch. Worse still a heavily overused crutch that only encourages the expectation of emotional irresponsibility in relationships. Putting cheating in your storyline as the main plot point is basic for obvious reasons unless the explicit and expressed purpose of the story is to criticize and demonstrate why cheating is obtuse and totally selfish/stupid.
These two tropes are overused on the daily, but they are overused on the hourly here. Dont do it. Take the time and effort to actually storyboard something rather than be lazy or stereotyped in order to front words/art. What you create if you do will be OBVIOUSLY different immediately, and refreshing to your audience.
Create original, or at least well structured content vs regurgitating stereotypes and bad tropes. Doing so will not just help you in your art and writing, but also in real life scenarios.
If your story, comic, or whatever is centering around either A, cheating, or B, a love triangle literally toss it out and start over lol. Love triangles are intensely annoying and designed to create artificial drama and storyline to replace actual plot and writing. They're a crutch. Worse still a heavily overused crutch that only encourages the expectation of emotional irresponsibility in relationships. Putting cheating in your storyline as the main plot point is basic for obvious reasons unless the explicit and expressed purpose of the story is to criticize and demonstrate why cheating is obtuse and totally selfish/stupid.
These two tropes are overused on the daily, but they are overused on the hourly here. Dont do it. Take the time and effort to actually storyboard something rather than be lazy or stereotyped in order to front words/art. What you create if you do will be OBVIOUSLY different immediately, and refreshing to your audience.
Create original, or at least well structured content vs regurgitating stereotypes and bad tropes. Doing so will not just help you in your art and writing, but also in real life scenarios.
Tropes are tools. There is no such thing as a "bad trope," there are only tropes used badly. Note that even in your statement of "literally toss it out and start over," you include an "unless..." You recognize that there are things you can do with this plot type. Most people just...don't.
Not that I actually disagree with you, mind. It can be appropriate to include, not so much a "love triangle" as "looking for a relationship, have multiple options." Unfortunately, the vast majority of love triangles usually cash out as either "stuck in a relationship I no longer want," which is just depressing, or (as you noted) selfish and stupid.
Additionally when it's used in this community many writers and artists have zero issue with normalizing relationship behaviors that have shown themselves to be totally irresponsible and toxic over and over again. Granted furries in general tend to have zero issue with actively normalizing toxic behavior so I'm not really surprised lol. All this being said I have no issue with OPTIONS like you were saying, being presented to a character. That's different. It's when the creation of romantic love triangle occurs generally because of the MCs own insecurities and relational irresponsibility that it ceases to be that.