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Hopepunk
You know, I am starting to think hopepunk is just not my genre.
I mean, I'm going to write the story and submit it to the hopepunk contest anyway, but I always wind up in a place where the ending might well be optimistic but the story was about going through utter hell. I seem to have precisely two settings: actively comedic, and deep exploration of really rough, hard-to-read stuff.
It'll presumably sell somewhere, so there's no reason not to treat this as a writing prompt, which is why I keep trying to write things for these hopepunk anthologies, but I really have to admit at some point that it's unlikely I will ever write a true hopepunk.
I mean, I'm going to write the story and submit it to the hopepunk contest anyway, but I always wind up in a place where the ending might well be optimistic but the story was about going through utter hell. I seem to have precisely two settings: actively comedic, and deep exploration of really rough, hard-to-read stuff.
It'll presumably sell somewhere, so there's no reason not to treat this as a writing prompt, which is why I keep trying to write things for these hopepunk anthologies, but I really have to admit at some point that it's unlikely I will ever write a true hopepunk.