Sometimes, Happily Ever After Is a Lie
’m a firm believer in the idea that for every kind of story—every trope, every character archetype, every intricate plot or total lack of one—there’s a reader. Blanket statements like “we don’t need any more books about xyz” tend to go over my head, because I’ve never actually encountered a case where that’s true. Something can be overdone, sure, but even things overdone have an audience. And anyway, they really shouldn’t be considered overdone until of readers and writers have had a chance to overdo them. For a writer, the crux lies in figuring out who your audience is and what they want to read and accepting the reality that for everyone your story is for, there’s a whole handful of people
