Okay, so I sort of address some of your issues in this post–and at the very least, the links I include in said post may be quite useful for you: http://writeinspiration.tumblr.com/post/139214012689/hi-so-i-finished-most-of-my-nanowrimo-novel-but I think the most important thing is to figure… Read moreI desperately want to write something with length and arcs and things like that but the disdain for my characters and my indifference to the situations I put them in has me at a loss. I imagine this might just be a failing of mine, and nature’s way of telling me to stick to shorter stories where all involved die at the end. Or maybe I’m missing something?

Okay, so I sort of address some of your issues in this post–and at the very least, the links I include in said post may be quite useful for you: http://writeinspiration.tumblr.com/post/139214012689/hi-so-i-finished-most-of-my-nanowrimo-novel-but I think the most important thing is to figure… Read moreI desperately want to write something with length and arcs and things like that but the disdain for my characters and my indifference to the situations I put them in has me at a loss. I imagine this might just be a failing of mine, and nature’s way of telling me to stick to shorter stories where all involved die at the end. Or maybe I’m missing something?