I wrote a short story and started a book about disabilities.
I was inspired by the abomination "Parkville High." I got it for free at Jack and Jill cluster. It was so bad it doesn't deserve italics. The writer couldn't even research the disabilities he was writing about (for example: "she has social phobia." No, It's social anxiety and it's not a disability. If you wanted to say she had A social phobia, that's fine. But theres no disability called social phobia.)
And "Party Artie?" Eww! What was worse was that he went around telling people that was his name. Don't forget how sexist/racist Arthur was to his crush. Just because she's Puerto Rican, doesn't mean you can act like a Puerto Rican stereotype around her.
The author overall sounded like an old man trying to sound like a teen, and his writing was AWFUL! Some of the things he said had nothing to do with his story. He had the same problem that many fan fiction writers have: killing off a character no one cares about and expecting us to care. What I normally do is read over my stories every paragraph or so, and ask myself "Would I read this?" or "Do The readers know this character enough to care when I dedicate 2 whole chapters to their death and funeral?" If not, I stop and revise.
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