This troper has problems with writer's block...which always seems to go away whenever his depression hits a really nasty downturn.

This editor had a guy in her high school art class whose relationship status was always apparent by what art he came up with. At first, he drew lots of pictures about death. When he got a girlfriend, he was suddenly drawing lots of flowers and sunshiney landscapes. They broke up and it was back to death, death, violence, death. New girlfriend and the flowers and sunshine return. Wash, rinse, repeat.

This troper's poetry tends to work itself around his real life themes whether he wants to or not: he's begun a poem more than once with a clear idea of the wordplay and rhythm he wants to create only to see it become very topical indeed, and often lose the initial idea.

One of the Big Bads of The Schoolkids Saga turned out to be a evil, petty minded, sadistic, reality warping villain who was manipulating all the other characters for motives that barely progressed beyond her own twisted amusement and hate-filled revenge fantasies. This occurred shortly after one of the readers pointed out that the story seemed obsessed with making cute girls cry.

This troper is currently writing an Evangelion FanFic. It started out as Shinji x Asuka WAFF, then FridgeLogic set in regarding the concept, along with a lot of depression. The current idea is Bourne meets Devilman, with BodyHorror in the second arc.

This troper is currently in the middle of writing a complicated story where someone psychically takes over the world, and is a pretty nice ruler, except for her immediate flogging of anyone who cuts her off on the highway.

This troper once broke off a friendship with a married woman for fear that he was developing romantic feelings for her. He wrote approximately a dozen short stories in the following year; the usual themes were 1. "two people find love against all odds", 2) "woman does not know that someone loves her and thus cannot reciprocate", and 3) "man in an isolated location commits suicide". Only now that he's happily married (to a completely different woman) has this troper realized what he was writing about the whole time.

This troper once named a character after a girl with whom he has long had a love/hate relationship. You can tell how he felt about her at the time based upon whether the character is a BadAss AntiVillain NobleDemon or an AxCrazy sociopath.

A friend of this troper criticized the main villain of a story this troper is working on, saying the villain wasn't frightening in the least. Later, the friend (who is something of a men's rights advocate) learned that female on male rape was real after reading about it and was greatly disquieted. This troper gleefully had the (female) villain rape a young boy in a later chapter. This ended up becoming a character trait for the villain, to insure readers absolutely hated her.

This troper had a webcomic-author buddy who insisted on writing her friends into the comic as important characters. When she'd manage to alienate a lot of those friends at once, she had to restart the comic entirely as she couldn't stand using those very-plot important characters; instead she used her current gaggle of buddies for those spots. And a month later she broke up with her boyfriend and had to stop the story again. You'd think one would eventually stop sticking Expys of their friends in when they chase them off with alarming regularity.

Reminds this troper of two friends, who both used expies of themselves and their friends in their projects. Due to various reasons they realized there was no way for them to write the story and characters as they wanted ''and'' keep their friends happy. In the end one the first replaced all expies with original characters (which resulted in a much better story) and the other dropped the project to focus on other things.

This guy recently discovered that most of his recent poetry was about his love-hate relationship with literary analysis and pop culture. He is currently planning on expanding these themes into a novel, because it might be fun.

This troper's father once talked to a playwright that was feeling conflicted. On one hand, the man's marriage was collapsing, he couldn't find work, his parents had recently passed away... "but thanks to all that, I'm writing some really great stuff."

This troper recently wrote two short fanfics, one about suicide and one about dealing with the loss of a parent. There's something to be said for choosing a fandom whose characters have the same issues as you do.

This troper was forced to leave college by a painful and expensive (yet relatively minor) illness and has been working manual-labor jobs ever since. During this period he became a ''BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' fan, based largely on season 6, and began writing fanfic after years of thinking about it. Though he's capable of writing passable humor, his major current project is ''[=DeadWar=]'', a long series about the chaos after Buffy herself becomes a vampire.

This troper once had a horrible, months-long argument with her brother/best friend. She broke off all communication with him for a while and during that time did things she regrets to her writing, such as having characters die, move, break up, and stop speaking to their jerky brothers. After the argument was settled, she wrote a big dramatic story to fix all the problems but the death, and the series snapped write back to love, happiness, and bunnies. Although the tone ''has'' been slightly darker since then...

This troper attempted to start a series of LetsPlay videos, only for people to complain about his voice, a complaint that he also got on an unrelated video. He promptly quit.

Voice LPs seem to be unpopular in all but a handful of cases anyway, if that makes you feel beter. (the exceptions usually involve a British accent)

This troper created an AxCrazy sociopathic character who was an extreme version of a {{Yandere}}. Only when she finally read the story over once to see how it was going did she notice this {{Yandere}} was creepily like her author during a bad relationship.

This troper used to weigh over five-hundred pounds and was hardcore-ostracized in highschool (to be fair, there was certainly wangst on his part, as well.) Despite losing nearly all the excess weight, this troper's fanfiction still often focuses on supporting characters who have trouble in their social lives. Original characters are often fairly smart but mistaken for DumbMuscle.

This troper ("Dialga") once had a very ugly encounter with a moderator on a certain forum. Said moderator promptly appeared in his writing as a RedShirt and is killed in a very brutal fashion.

That is remarkably petty.

This troper often listens to "mood music" when she's writing. When she's in a good mood and listening to happy (or at least kinda upbeat) music, her characters are likely to be doing okay. However, disaster struck when she listened to Avril Lavigne's song "Slipped Away" a few too many times in a row and promptly sent her main character's best friend over a waterfall, supposedly to his death. Oops. (But of course, he's not dead yet.)

This Troper's creations have fluctuated up and down the SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism depending on my mental state, resulting in three fictional worlds on the upper, lower and middle levels of the scale. This didn't always correspond to my mood though- sometimes when I was miserable I'd dream of better days, and when I'm happy I'm comfortable with dreaming up visions of misery. And then I can pick which universe to use when I see something I want to rip off- er, be inspired by.

This is how I operate. My best stories are defined by how angsty I am at the moment.

This troper has been working on a fantasy novel for a few years. Two of those years were spent being hounded by a sadistic {{jerkass}} who enjoyed following me around and claiming to believe things that I consider disgusting, or attributing them to me, in an attemt to anger me into attacking him and getting in trouble, or shouting and yelling, and destroying my reputation. All those who had once been my friends found him hilariously funny, and all the grownups claimed that I should turn the other cheek, and let him he would come to a sticky end. I am convinced that he and his laughing torture represent the next great evil, and he will become a tyrant on the scale of Augustus, Hitler, and Mao. I also believe that he was an aggressive drug dealer, but could not prove it as his admissions were buried between claims that he or I was a Nazi or a slaver, among many others. During that time, the main villain of my book gained a new Dragon, based on this demon, who singlehandedly breaks the PG-13 I usually hold myself to, and dies 2 humiliating deaths. Ironically, I think this may greatly improve my book. and if he does take over, I will lead LaResistance

This troper has a story concept stemming directly from his cynical depression, which is a brutal, cynical, TakeThat {{Deconstruction}} of FiveManBand save-the-world stories. Evangelion contributed somewhat to its mood.

This Troper started plans for a superhero novel in the summer of 2001. Starting that fall, he spent several years planning for the big plot twist at the end of the novel to be that the main character ''stops 9/11''. He eventually gave up on that aspect in early 2007, but still plans to integrate his relationship issues-or lack thereof-into the book.

This troper is writing a novel. You can tell my mood based on the theme of the story, and how many main characters die. Granted, one of the characters can resurrect everyone, so...

This troper tries very hard not to let OOC problems (with herself or otherwise) color her in character reactions in [=RPGs=], but sometimes... it just happens.

This troper has found himself in unrequited love situations with almost every girl he's ever been attracted to, including one of his best friends. This troper has created a male hero who just happens to in love with his best friend, who is a girl, who doesn't (at least initially) return his feelings. Coincidence, surely.

Only if both of you are also me...

RadioactiveZombie being weirder when he was younger, his zombie MMO character (TinMan who became emotional upon his RP partner (and friend... yes, he was an annoying loner) left the MMO during a massive upheaval when the admin made more human nerfs, and thus ruined a massive human versus zombie event. His character reverted to what he originally was, a Rei Ayanami/Sousuke Sagara expy. Commence {{wangst}}!

This troper is sorry, but she does this a LOT. On a good day, I'm writing tranquil ''Labyrinth'' fanfiction with Jareth as wacky {{steampunk}} mad scientist, or detailing the adventures of a German voodoo priestess, her golem-thing husband, and her sidekick, the bordering-on-{{Keet}]-level sassy, skeletal undead mime. These are, despite how they may sound, all fairly upbeat. On bad days, I might be running a perfectly benign [=RPG=] thread at the same time as I'm writing {{squick}}y rape scenes and wrenchingly described body horror. These good days and bad days have nothing to do with hormones and everything to do with how stressed she is, and the accompanying depression. Ergo, character as punching bag. However, I'm sure there's a healthier way to deal with my angst than writing a paragraph or two on my Jesuit trainee priest boy getting his fingers broken by a sexual sadist...

This troper's greatest FanFic-work started out as a Horror, continued as a Mystery and ended up as an Adventure. Beats me how, exactly.

This troper's work is either peppered with pitch-black humour or completely devoid of anything pleasant. Admittedly, it's difficult to tell between the two because the pieces of work in question are detailing the adventures of the Marines Iratus as they traipse across the galaxy, meeting impossible horrors from beyond and beating them to death for perceived insults against the Emprah.

This editor started a ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh}}'' fanfic during his stint in college. As it became clear he was failing, the story started to turn darker, with a villain wiping out part of Minneapolis with meteors. After he failed out of college and moved back home, the story turned darker still, with the heroes facing a demon who literally eviscerated the main character's love interest mid-duel, and then all three of the mains losing in turn to a SerialKiller duelist (only winning through DeusExMachina on the rematch). Eventually, between a realization of what had happened to him and his waning interest in ''Yu-Gi-Oh'', the troper pulled the plug on the story. His more recent projects have proven slightly more optimistic.

This troper had a recurring nightmare about a serial killer with a Jekle and Hyde complex who's Hyde came out in absence of light and was an unabashed cannible. Said villain was worked into my Superhero novel series and severly deconstructed into a pathetic person (still evil, but an utter crybaby and what ever the opposite of the MagnificentBastard is). Now I don't have those nightmares anymore.

This troper is the exact opposite of all of the above. He had a long time where he wrote more depressing works as his life began to work out, and then went into a year long {{Heroic BSOD}}, in which he wrote some incredibly happy and peppy stuff, and now that he's at one (or two, depends on his mood) with the universe, he now writes KillEmAll endings and some other nasty things happening to generally good people.

This troper can't write music while in a normal mood. His best songs have come while he's been angsting over being dumped. Well, the ones people have reacted most positively to. Go figure.

This troper does this frequently. She has a couple of characters in particular she tends to torture when she's in a bad mood, as it DOES make her feel better...and people who read it think it's better than when she's just writing normally.

This troper does his best to avoid this, usually being a writer of humor, so he usually does not work on his stories at all until he's in a really good mood.

This troper (not much of an editor, but I browse a LOT) has this semi-inverted (?). My writing was not inspired by a breakdown. My writing caused a breakdown.

Same here. I created a character who was very much based on myself (a bit of a MarySue in fact) yet found to my horror that the story was turning her into a pretty damn despicable villain rather than the BrokenHero I had intended. This led me to a pretty nasty breakdown, when it made me realise just how much subconscious self loathing had gone into her. Late in the story I overcame the darker issues I saw in her and let her devolve into a CompleteMonster, mostly for catharsis.

This troper doesn't so much have a CreatorBreakdown, as much as a Creator Brokedown. After living for a decade with severe depression and not a few years being suicidal, one could be forgiven in expecting my works to be dark, unpleasant, and brutal. Well, they're right about that. Strangely, though, despite not much happening to better this troper's state of mind, the endings of those works tend to end... well enough, I guess. Sure, they've suffered more than any eight people deserve to, but they get something out of it. Unless they don't.

An entire arc of this troper's stories involves the main character becoming poisoned with this demon blood called Vitriol. It essentially makes the poisoned person significantly more irritable and destructive (especially destructive) with a side order of slightly loony. The characteristics of the specific people that the main character kills when the Vitriol kicks in frequently match traits of people that have bothered this troper.

This troper had just gotten over a depression when she started working on a (now finished) story. Apparently she wasn't over it as much as she thought, because halfway through the main character's best friend died, the main character went through HeroicBSOD, and everyone who read the story commented on how much the main character's mindset mirrored her own. Nevertheless, writing about the main character's depression (and him eventually overcoming it) was very cathartic.

This troper almost went insane due to this.

Another musician here. I have always been unable to write music while happy. It is not possible. One must be in a down place to write good songs. Also, when writing stories, I acknowledged long ago that my characters were all thinly veiled replicas of people I knew in real life, and anyone who died was someone I didn't like. I was twice affected by Creator Breakdown regarding love interests, to the point of changing their names and retconning them almost out of the entire series. I went back three years later, with hindsight, and fixed all the problems for the Big Rewrite. Didn't change the names back though.

This (diagnosed with a mood disorder) troper is pretty sure she counts as a hack writer and bad roleplayer because of this... she writes her best works when she's either just this side of suicidal or full-out manic, and can only seem to write as Jude Maverick and have him act anywhere close to his canon personality when she's feeling ''extremely'' depressed. (Writing as a scarily optimistic little human weapon makes a cheap substitute for therapy? Yeeeaaaah... she doesn't know either.)

This troper usually writes pretty boring poems when he is happy. However, get him even in a slightly bad mood and he'll write witty, sarcastic and incredibly funny poems in any classical format. Then you can imagine what he can do when he is ''really'' depressed. Also, he started to write a very depressing horror short story in which the main character is a divorced homicide detective, whose friends, girlfriend, ex-wife and children are killed by the monster. He is - unknown to him - the monster, and when he realizes it, he commits suicide., but couldn't finish it because of the good things happening in his life. When he gets screwed by the universe next time, he will complete it. Also, he writes a series of sci-fi shorts, but he can't finish the series: when he finishes a darker episode, and the series approaches a DownerEnding, some happy event just happens to him, so he writes a light episode just to compensate for the dark and to get the series' overall tone to neutral. But when the series even get close to the HappilyEverAfter ending, he gets fucked by the Universe big time. Yup, the series becomes neutral again.

This troper has a story in the works inspired by ''two'' separate creator breakdowns. The first involved the bratty little wolf-boy described over on the Troper Tales for Smug Snake, back before she realized that he was an idiot and that his abuse of her wasn't all her fault. The second, more recent one involved a Type 6 love triangle where she found out that someone whom she was friends with, was in a relationship at the time with a boy she has/had a crush on which recently ended with IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy. The SmugSnake situation inspired a SpoiledBrat ManipulativeBastard character who is the only male in a family with female werewolves and therefore is unable to be a werewolf (which he desperately desires), and so lets out his {{Wangst}} by abusing everyone around him to CompleteMonster degrees, while the love triangle is applied to characters in her universe with whom it ended much less happily, to say the least.

After being treated like a stalker by a girl I had some interest in for simply having an interest (I know it's impossible for me to prove this online, but...) and having her not tell me that she felt uncomfortable and not telling me that anything was wrong at all, instead going to some of my friends and complaining to them about it... Well, I wrote the most violent scene in my book so far... A guy gets his face burned off with a very strong enzyme made to recycle organic material and then curb stomped. Granted, the guy deserved it, but I'd imagine a lot of my friends and family could never have seen an event like that coming in something I would write. I've been treating my main character rather badly for similar reasoning as well, even though the majority of my story is already planned out, at least the major direction everything will take.

This troper is currently working on a Watchmen fanfic about a woman who falls in love with Rorschach only to be denied, basing the woman on a version of herself that she believes is sad and pathetic. She ended up despising her character for the same reason she despises her former self. She also read way too many fanfics and a certain book series about how the main female characters have an obsessive behavior that borders on anti-feminist when it comes to their love interests and are rewarded for this behavior. This troper is now using her character as the poster child for explaining that obsession is not true love and has been punishing her brutally. She also watched this video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjO81Qf7RFw) and found herself writing a Star Trek: The Next Generation fanfic that's main purpose was to parody the Twilight craze.

This troper regrets interrupting an RPG story to write not one but two songs complaining about him not having a girlfriend.

You can always tell what kind of a mood this troper has been in recently by how screwed a character might be in his 'Phoenix' setting. It can range from Warhammer40k-esque levels of "Oh fuck" to reasonably realistic gritty survival (it's a war setting, so that's pretty damn good for it)

This troper suspects he's having this. He's been trying for years to write a proper story with the setting his been developing for years. Unfortunately, test readers claim the setting has been so developed it has become useless, since most of story ends up as exposition. The rest is apparently Nightmare Fuel of the most disturbing quality. I seem to have a special talent for crafting disturbing scenes, all related to people going insane with boredom and going on very graphic killing sprees, long torture sessions, sadistic choices, infant rape, public executions, and war crimes. After a year of this I'm afraid of writing.

This troper was in the process of making several stories and many of them had pretty happy endings. Then he fell into depression and began to feel that people were inherently bastards. Suddenly his stories get darker and they have death abound. Luckily after a NeonGenesisEvangelion fueled catharsis, he feels much better and managed to take the parts he liked from the darker stories

This troper tends to write fiction and poetry with influence from whatever he's experiencing at the time. Unfortunately, TrueArtIsAngsty, as all but one of my favorite poems were written when I was in a bad mood. Because of this, I tend not to work on writing a story if I'm temporarily depressed, lest bad things happen (e.g. KILL EM ALL). Oddly enough, it's actually easier to write for the villain when I'm in a bad mood.

This troper can only assume people think he's had/having one, since outside of a few mystery stories, all his fan pieces seem to involve taking ultimate evil from setting A and flinging it at happy-go-lucky character from setting B in the form of a horrible corruption/darkfic.

This troper's cousin NickTheSwing recently had his breakdown. His stories became a LOT DarkerAndEdgier, with the usually plucky story Viandas about the upbringing of a hero in another of his novels turned rather quickly into the book form of {{Berserk}}. Johnson Viandas is now a traumatized teenage mercenary fighting against two extremely powerful empires. Another story, this one an AU GundamSEED Fanfic turned into NeonGenesisEvangelion, with a CompleteMonster antagonist cast, a thoroughly unlikeable protagonist, a thoroughly broken Woobie? No, just a JerkAss teenager named Kail Oyamada who hates his enemies so much he blew up one of their temples...with a bunch of unarmed priests still inside. StartOfDarkness? Yes indeed...

Perhaps this (pageless) troper's best peace of fiction came from a college paper he wrote about an author who sunk into depression after a lack of finishing his assorted novels, novellas, etc. This turned out to be a more self-reflective than intended paper (which luckily still received an A) and eventually morphed into a short story about a horror author who was driven mad by his own creations and ended up killing another man, then hanging himself.

This troper will hit writer's block on some stories and either flat-out delete them or leave them hanging for months at a time without even looking at them.

Thanks to this trope, all I write is either absurd quasi-surrealist comedy (in the good times) or tearjerkers (in the bad times)]

I drew this picture right in the middle of a severe bout of loneliness, and it shows.

TheKingOfDastards suffered from a very mild and brief version of this, where, after suffering from severe writer's block and realizing he had been working on a stupid-long fan-fic he had started when he was thirteen and was only keeping on it because a reader thought he couldn't finish it, finally culminated in taking what was originally going to be a normal chapter of the fan-fic and completely derailing it with the main character saying he's tired of this. The main villain and character then get involved in a giant robot fight, "conveniently forget the rest of the characters, plot, and setting." This Troper's hand then bursts from the sky, tells them to stop, the main character makes a few offensive comments about various people just to tick me off, blows up my hand by throwing the other giant robot (which he had set on FIRE) at it. Finally, after the universe was destroyed, the main character winds up at the ending of Neon Genesis Evangelion, where he convinces Shinji and Ausuke to have sex for the continuation of the human race and is last seen walking off to give a pep-talk to a bunch of tang. Basically, I was so absolutely sick of my fan-fic, but I channeled it rather healthily, making it completely absurd and random and outrageously lampshading both the CreatorBreakdown and the GainaxEnding by stuffing in the end of Evangelion. Of course, the fan-fic was already rather absurdistic anyway...

Oh yeah, I put "THE END..... SUCKERS" at the end, then stuffed a message several spaces down implying the ending was caused by velociraptors.

This Troper had to work hard to avoid it near the end of one of his [=TF2=] fanfictions. I became bored with the story, but I felt an obligation to finish it, as all the readers found it entertaining. Specifically, the RunningGag of the Scout getting horribly injured once per chapter was becoming difficult to keep original. I managed to finish it, keeping the tone consistent and intact, though I did have the characters argue that the injuries were becoming tedious.

The themes of my stories reflect how I feel and how many action movies/games I've seen recently. Example: I came up with the basic plot of one story while not really pumped up, but came up with the majority of the action after watching fight scenes).

This troper usually writes fairly comedic plays about lawyer demons, siblings who play elaborate pranks on each other, and college students who won't leave their dorm rooms. Her current work, on completing university and finding herself completely without direction for the first time in her life, is a series of loosely-linked monologues by characters who have no future, unless it's a depressing one.

This Troper writes a lot of {{Kingdom Hearts}} fanfiction. Thus, one can tell what kind of mood I'm in by how Kairi is doing in a given fic. If I'm in a cheery mood, or if I'm listening to the right music, I'll send her on a journey to find herself, she'll meet a cute animal sidekick in the form of a ridiculously cute Heartless, and it's sunshine and lollipops all the way 'round. The darker my mood (or my Mood Music), the worse it'll get for her and anyone who befriends her. It usually gets better.

On May 22, 2010, superslinger2007 (the user or the character?) got COMPROMISED (damn the two users who decided to upload a panel from a convention in FULL on YouTube), but he apparently met Yuki Nagato the same day. And then he ran into a bunch of other characters as well.

I started writing a few months before I got my first girlfriend. My writing was pretty happy then, and my girlfriend encouraged me to continue writing, so I started writing even happier one-shots. Then, however, my girlfriend broke up with me and the next three things I wrote were a one-shot in which pretty much the same happens to the character, a poem meant entirely for my ex in which I asked her to stop being so happy, and a poem in which a guy tells his lover that despite the fact he doesn't believe in lasting forever, tonight he will.

After some months of being friends. This troper's friend suddenly just hated her. To cope with this I wrote (admittedly wangsty) poems.

This Troper Justifies this trope because he started to write poetry to find a way to convey the way he feels to people. Leading to his first good poem about the death of a loved one.

This Troper was in high school, and could do very little as a charming sociopath made his way through my few friends and really did damage to our {{Nakama}} as he "seduced" (quotes intentional - the sack of shit later went to jail for raping a thirteen year old) some of the female members and liked to play the male ones off one another. I'll admit that I puked out my horror, frustration, and rage into an OldShame DeepSpaceNine fanfic. My internet handle still comes from that story - if only to remind me the kind of darkness anyone is capable of.

This Troper had a mental breakdown in her sophomore-to-junior year of high school. The stories before mental breakdown involved humorous, usually happy and upbeat stories about magic and fun things like that. The stories after? Often involve themes of incarceration, persecution, forced alteration of physical or personality characteristics, {{Humans Are Bastards}}, and genetic experimentation (though that one's been there ever since I was five, I think). The deaths of characters became more creative, and the violence became more prevalent, ''especially'' to showcase the {{Humans Are Bastards}} aspects of the stories. {{I Got Better}}, but the darker aspects of the stories remain. She thinks this is a change for the better.

Inverted with This Troper. I'm trying to make sure Writer's Block and the inablity to finish a story (one example) doesn't drive me insane.

Before, this troper used to write about MarySue and her nice little world of happy and perfect. After a little BreakTheCutie moment, my characters are daily beaten to bloody pulp, making as many mistakes as they could, going into breakdowns themselves, commiting suicide, the LoveInterest going insane...all of that while being funny. And you know what else? My readers claim my writting has matured.

Sounds typical. I always wondered why that sort of stuff was "Mature".

I dunno. I'm not the one that ''chooses'' to read my stories.

This troper is determined to avert this trope, since I just like to tell stories and don't think that my life has any right to taint them.

This troper, when he was younger, would purposely avoid writing his stories when he was in a bad mood to avert this trope; because his stories back then where intended to be light-hearted and funny. However, he eventually gave in and just goes with the flow now; this being most obvious in his most recent stories.

This troper has surprisingly averted it. He once wrote up ideas for a game storyline that was actually a bit dark, and when people asked if I was being bullied at school while writing it, I said, "I thought of this during ''summer''."

I sometimes have moods or recent events influence my songs/lyrics or stories.

This troper played it straight then inverted it. He went through a phase in high school where his poetry went dark and cynical, during a time when he himself was rather cynical of the world. Then he realized he'd much rather write stories as they were. He doesn't even write poetry anymore, moving on to prose.

This tropette is in a constant state of this. How will I get things to write about if I'm not SUFFERING!!!!

This troper had a little spat with her Spanish teacher in middle school. anyone's wondering...: Basically, I was called to write the answer to something on the board, but when she got to mine she turned to me and said that the hand writing was fail(her words, not mine). I confronted her about it before I left for art class, and it turns out she had turned to someone sitting next to me; had she recalled that it was mine, she wouldn't have said anything(my IEP stated that accommodations for such things must be made as needed, so she knew). IMHO, that hurt worse than calling my handwriting fail in front of the class) In the following art class, she drew her border for a project in all dark, depressing colors with frowny faces in the corners.

Inverted by this troper: after the birth of my nephew, my main character went from a generic broody AntiHero to a fiercely protective family man and the tone of my stories got considerably more optimistic.

One of my best works (and one of the few to get published) was written when my relationship with my father was incredibly unstable, and it shows.

This troper plays it straight, He started to write poetry after losing someone important, So, it started on at CreatorBreakdown, but the farther he etched from DespairEventHorizon, his works got more earthly and less cynical and depressing. But after thing went for the worst, it went back to CreatorBreakdown.

This troper developed a rather bad case of workaholism towards their novel at a time when their uni course was getting especially demanding and, to cut a long story short, went completely off the deep end in the space of a month and a half. To this day, I can't even think about the story without feeling bursts of anxiety, but I've written a few small unrelated pieces and hope to be able to go back to it one day...

Subverted and Defied with this troper. He knows everyone goes through various problems, whatever they may be. And although this troper is somewhat cynical and gets bullied sometimes and is upset easily, he tends to keep a (usually) happy face on him and his writing stays optimistic and oftentimes humorous. And when he can't do that much, he simply won't write.

When he was younger, this troper was gripped by a rather sucky, hidden unrequited love for a friend. Around the same time, he wrote a post-metal concept album about a guy who keeps dreaming about his wife committing suicide and attempts to hide it. Over time she begins to realise and watching him on the downwards spiral brought on by his obsession with this dream (eventually reaching the point where he goes mad and acts as thought she has committed suicide) makes her kill herself in the exact way he dreampt. Halfway through, I realised that I was just writing about a guy trying to hide something from his love until it drives them apart, and, disgusted, I gave up on it. Cue now, and having re-listened and decided it was actually damn good, I've continued work on it sans emotional baggage.

This troper once read a RealPersonFic based on the band MyChemicalRomance in which the author created {{Expies}} of four or five of her friends. One of those expies became pregnant at one point in the story, and shortly thereafter, the author and the friend this particular expy was based on had a falling out, which resulted in the expy dying in childbirth.

This troper is getting close to such. For a bit of backstory, her RPC is infertile due to being a HalfHumanHybrid, and has been such before learning about such: Her RPer is likely to never have a child due to multiple complications. Now, this wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't for another 40,000 year old character constantly asking her barely 30 RPC to make her able to have children, while said troper RPC copes by making humanoid flesh golems, and this troper simply plans to adopt, it kind of stings and may cause an IC/OOC blow up sometime later. Combined with the science the 40,000 year old character's RPer uses to excuse such...

This Troper has a couple examples, all of which are based around a very strange relationship. I'm sorry if this is TL;DR but the version I'm giving you is the SHORT one! I started dating a guy who was in an open relationship and who preferred Scene Girls (I'm not Scene). Every girl he went for except for me was Scene. Well, after about a month and a half he tried the slow fade away cuz his Primary, B, wanted to be exclusive with him (she suggested an open relationship in the first place) but I got sick of it and dumped him. A year later I was on the rebound and reconnected with him. I mistook rebound for love, which was frustrating cuz he ran hot and cold. I also found out he was engaged to B. The guy, S, said he was gonna dump her and wanted another chance with me but I knew he never would because in the year I've known him, I knew he didn't love B but stayed with her anyway. PLUS he couldn't leave me for her the first time but could leave her for another girl and get back when it didn't work out, so why would it be different now? In short, it wasn't. But that didn't stop his friend--who the guy I dated before S dumped me for, and who S tried dating at one point, I might add--from hating me because she is B's best friend and thought I was stealing S from her. (She went so far as to call me "bad news".) S still ran hot and cold, and in that time I met my current boyfriend, D. While S was running cold I got sick of his shit and decided to pursue D. Our six-month marker is on 7/22/11

"Korizma", which is a song I wrote about the girl who hated me because she thought I was gonna steal her friend's guy. It's mainly making fun of Crunkcore music but because I was pissed at her and how stupid her reason for hating me really was, well...

"Serial Romeo" was inspired by what I read about the Serial Romeo trope, and the guy the girl didn't want me stealing from her friend. As stated above, he is definitely a Serial Romeo and can't decide whether he likes the Scene Girls he meets or is in love with me. Well, he lost me because of his indecision and because I found someone who could truly love me for who I am. The first verse of the song goes as follows: #QUOTE# Serial Romeo #QUOTE# Your life's a tragedy #QUOTE# Written in shades of grey #QUOTE# Like your morality #QUOTE# Serial Romeo #QUOTE# How beats your fickle heart #QUOTE# Tripping here, falling there #QUOTE# You never finish what you start

This third example was going to be called "Bad Romance" and it was going to be based on the relationship between S and me. I knew that our situation--my being out of a relationship, meeting up with an ex, "falling" in love with him (I know I was never in love) but being unable to be with him because he was engaged--was the stuff Romantic Comedies were made of. Having lived it and hated it, I decided I was going to write a graphic novel based on it, which would subvert it and point out everything that was wrong with it and why it would fail in real life. I don't know if I'm going to go through with it because I'm in a really great relationship now and would rather focus on the positive things I have in my life now, instead of the shit I had to put up with before.

{{Defied}} and {{played straight}} by this Troper. Whenever her real life begins to seep into her novel writing, she switches her focus to {{Fan Fiction}} so she can vent without doing any real damage.