Why Angst?

Hey guys, 

Please don't feel attacked, hurt or something like that, I just wanted to share my feelings since I read a Story and at the end the main ship didn't get together. I normally don't read angst but there was no angst tag so I didn't even know and it made me sad. 

I'm just asking, why people are writing angst Stories. I swore to myself to never write one since the world we are living in is angsty enough so when I read or watch something I like it to have an happy ending. Drama is good but I just don't get why people in Stories don't get their happiness at the end or someone dies.

Just wanted to share this with you. Hope you have a great day😁✌️

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saidaonce347 #1
Oh I get what you mean. I feel the same. I lived through so many ty things that I don't like angst either. I respect authors who write in generell but I think I couldn't write angst, like never.
MissMinew #2
I'm an angst writer and feels more secure writing angst. I started out writing with a want to portray mental disorders more realistically than what I had read so far (with it being an interest of mine and also because I was struggling myself). I'd found the portrayals rather ... romanticised when I read and I didn't like that. Writing mental disorder usually get pretty angsty. ; - ; Then I switched to crime because I enjoyed reading a lot of crime in my sparetime and so it felt like a natural progression. I honestly even found romance and fluff really hard to write, it felt like I had a million words to describe an angsty scenario and two to describe a fluffy one.
That has changed a little and I like writing fluffy stuff too nowadays. But like you, I honestly also preferred reading fluff and romance. I got too much angst in my life and the world is certainly full of enough bad as it is. Luckily, we get to choose what we would like to read. :D

For me it was the portrayal of something I held a dead interest in and later my love for a specific genre that practically made me write mainly angst.

Though I will say, it feels kind of sad to not tag a story appropriately. I understand if you felt a little misled when they didn't have their happy ending and you weren't expecting that. ; - ;
MeloMera #3
I don't write angst to hurt and make people sad but I just find myself writing angst when I write what I want :')
I do agree the world we are living in is angsty enough but we can't avoid that and some writers prefer writing realistically so I guess it all depends on their preferences. We can't always escape from reality even in stories.
But really it's all about people's preferences. So I think writers should write what they want and readers should read what they want. None of it should be forced or criticized because writers write because they want to and readers read because they want to.
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