Dark and emotional story issues

[Idealect]

Imo its less that people won't like a character that is "whiny", and more that it's unpleasant to be in someone's head who has a negative attitude. Most people are whiny sometimes. I think it can even be a good thing to have "whiny" moments or times unfiltered by positivity or even stoicism.

But when reading a book, you can put yourself in someone's head, and while there's usually value in seeing/being someone trying to bear up through suffering, generally pure rumination is not enjoyable or learnable-from. Imo the reader should get something out of being in the characters head, and that usually means two things: a positive, and/or, an interesting, experience.


I wonder if some very positive people might have a greater interest in it, for a change of pace.

 

[Mad Alice]

its less that people won't like a character that is "whiny", and more that it's unpleasant to be in someone's head who has a negative attitude.

I wonder if some very positive people might have a greater interest in it, for a change of pace.

While I don't consider myself one, many people tell me I am a very positive person. In my experience, reading about such characters is extremely unpleasant. Largely incomprehensible. They are a cipher to me, their lacking ruth and responsibility.
I find a book length of this to be largely tedious.
However may I suggest some authors who have done it successfully are Holly Lisle particularly with her character Rita Coneva(sp?) and Mark Lawrence in his Prince of Thorns books.
One suggestion. The internal / external conflict should not be the whole story but add to the real story.

 

[Darkranger85]

I'm in the process of outlining the story now. But certainly, the internal conflict will not be the entire story. It will of course be highlighted, but there is a greater goal to it.

I don't think I'd enjoy reading a book about a medieval woman moping around her home lol.