u/OpeningNearby9494

I wanna read a book where the MMC is extremely popular, attractive, rich, famous, or any stereotype of that caliber. Everyone falls for him and wants him except the girl he’s been friends with for X amount of time (could be recent or longer, such as from childhood). She just thinks of him as every other guy and he likes her (could be a super recent thing or longer). He tries to impress her in the only way he knows by flaunting his looks and riches but it doesn’t work and instead she’s just like “umm what r u doing? U look ridiculous.” Or something.

BUT HERES THE IMPORTANT PART!! Perhaps she doesn’t like him back because she thinks it would never happen since he’s out of her league (not in looks but monetarily). But it would be an extra bonus if she is generally average and not a supermodel, though not insecure about it if you get what I’m saying. OR I want her to not be into him just because she doesn’t think he would be her type, because she wants a lowkey relationship with a guy who cherishes her fully, and she just never had the idea that MMC could deliver. And maybe he has mommy issues or a lot of baggage and she has considered it before but was like LMAO NAHHH

Yes this request is super specific, and I doubt there’s anything that hits the head perfectly, but PLEASE if there is anything similar recommend it to me. I’m desperate and wanna read something like this SO BAD!

Thank you😘

Recently, I was thinking (as one does) about my biggest flaws that I have as a writer. Of course I have many since it’s only recently, in the past year, that I have started to focus on my stories and writing in particular, and thus the skills of telling them, more intently. One of the biggest ones by far is my issue with stating the obvious (i.e., not writing in a way that lets a reader use context clues — as they are capable of doing).

And when I thought deeper into it, I came upon the realization that the reason it’s my biggest flaw is because of writing all those papers in school and the teacher asks in red ink, “who are they???? Need to be clearer” Despite knowing exactly who ‘they’ are because I referred to the source by name in the previous sentence.

My point is that I’m pretty sure my problem as a writer is that research papers and such have had an insane impact on many of my flaws as a writer. And yes, of course academic/scholarly writing is completely different from the contemporary nonfiction that I enjoy writing. But in my head all I feel is the fear of someone reading my work going “who are they????” So I’d rather be as clear as possible, but because of that it ruins the flow by adding so many unnecessary statements from the protagonist that are already extremely clear to the viewer.

And I’m always constantly stressed that the context I’m providing isn’t clear enough, so even while I’m revising I end up keeping those parts in because I just think, “what if there’s that one person that would be lost otherwise?“​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ and I believe it’s hindering my writing quite a lot

So I was wondering if you guys experienced this as a writer, but more specifically if you found certain habits for writing instilled in you from school papers becoming an extreme hurdle to cross, as well.

Because surely over a decade of writing academic papers (and being taught how to write “properly”) would be quite a tough habit to break?