I was just writing a wholesome story of two couples and i just kept writing, when i read the story the couple broke up in the next few lines, the girl killed the boy, harvested his organs, then ate it, and many unspeakable things i can't mention.
Why do everything i write truns up either really depressing or really dark?
Am i fated to write only tragic novels?
Well, it looks like you are a discovery writer, but you are creating characters who make strange choices.
So, I think you need to go back and start asking yourself 'why'.
Why did they break up? Why would this cause her kill him? Why does harvesting his organs seem like a good idea? Why is she not simply horrified at her actions and calling her (parents/sibling/friends) for help? Why is she not repulsed at the idea of eating his organs, and why would she think to do that in the first place?
This does not seem like a chain of events that would happen with most people or characters. So, do you have a character whose personality would cause them to do this? Or are you reaching points where you don't have a feel for what should happen, and so you reach for something dramatic? And after that you need something even more extreme, creating a chain of ever worsening events.
If these actions are in-character, then you have trouble creating a mentally healthy character. I am not sure how to help you here.
If these actions aren't because of the character but because you need to have the character *
do* something, then you need to fix that. It will slow you down a lot, but you are going to have to start double checking yourself and asking *
why* a character is doing something. If there is no good answer to why they are doing something, then don't write them doing it.
That's my big take away really. Don't write a character doing something unless you have a good reason for them to be doing it.
