Diary Thing(?)

It's hard to be original

Why is it always a promise? Why is it always a mentor-mentee relationship gone wrong? Someone is always either betrayed in some way or killed. Or they get together and have a messy breakup. Or they mutually end the relationship before getting back together after years of endless pining and jealousy. Or all of that but with their best-friend. Or really any friend. Why is it always a story about someone making something out of nothing? Of turning poverty into prosperity? Isn’t that less of someone's story and more feeding the fire of many people's collective fantasy? How do you go about writing a story free of tropes and cliches and outside influences? It’s impossible, because those things make up the stories that make up our foundational understanding of how to create and tell them. That’s why it takes so long to write anything good, or good enough, because they need to come alive on their own, in their own time, at their own pace. Otherwise, they're just copies of copies. I mean they're already destined to be that, but at least they'll gain their own autonomy. Hopefully. A bit. Probably. I don’t know anymore.