now, i think that all of these are examples of pretty bad writing. but i wrote them, and they're here, for better or worse. it's probably good to acknowledge the shitty things you've done in the past even if you no longer stand by them. as an aside, i also think everything i write is bad immediately after it's finished. why not be an impartial third party, and decide for yourself?
i suppose it wouldn't kill me to elaborate a little. when i write, i obviously think about every little detail until they're all seared into my head. so it's only natural that to me, every metaphor or allusion i use is extremely fucking obvious and heavy-handed. if someone else were to read these stories, that might not be the case for them. or it might be! i don't know! i do have a lot of actual criticisms of my own writing that don't boil down to perspective - sometimes it feels like i write for hype moments and aura without any actual substance to my stories. that's the main one. but is my writing really that shit? only one way to find out for yourself - read it!
in my fiction, i mostly write about being transgender. that's what all of the stories are about if you couldn't tell. i put a lot of them out pre-transition, so i guess it was my way of screaming into the void. other themes i touch on are memory (i like this one a lot), lesbianism (i also like this one. hmu btw), lost love, self-harm. i like to break up linear narratives in a semi-epistolary fashion, it's fun. my main literary influence is qiu miaojin. and no, i will not elaborate on that one.
[NEW!] something about war, PTSD, the impossibility of forgetting, and tenderness in the rotten.
something about broken people once in love. semi-epistolary, i suppose.
something about dysphoria, fatherhood, and ennui
something about dreams, hazy memories of bygone days, and florid (derogatory) metaphors