Recurring things in your writing?

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My writing usually has ordinary people encounter extraordinary things or worlds. There is romance in some of my writing and a little bit of tragedy.

When I'm writing stories about my invented world, I'm influenced by the following things:
I'm influenced by the world history (in the world historie are many inspiring things and strange interesting situations), fantasy books (I dislike much magic, but a little bit of magic is necessary, so I used some magic things), my dreams, many other things (For example when I saw something strange or interesting landscapes).
I#m using the standard fantasy races and try to invent new ones but I'm focussed on humans.
I had problems with religions and the inner feelings of my characters.
Than I'm mixing my ideas and connected it with older ideas.

But I think that there are not so many persons who would be interested in my writings.

- When writing, I'm unusually cynical, much more so than in real life. One thing I've caught myself doing very often is adding a cynical or insulting sidenote. Some translated examples:

Usually things like...
-Betrayal
-Reoccuring characters
-Crossovers
-Certain locations
-And flashbacks

I want to try to write it in English.
Also, I had no problems when I made some mistakes, but other persons who would read it.

Ok, that's cool. I'd be more than happy to read your writing if you typed it out.

For me it's single fathers, characters who find themselves alone, unrequited love, God has a sense of humor, and/or the occasional "didn't really think that all the way through"

Terry Pratchett is a author I draw inspiration from.

"What is a tourist?"
"I think it means idiot"
From the color of magic by Terry pratchett

My stories generally

- had people escaping from something
- were deliberately 'surreal', wherein things were 'nonsensical' (whatever that means) yet sensationally enjoyable.. unique shapes, metaphors, etc
- were at least a little sarcastic/ironic/?
- didn't really have a 'plot'.. whatever that is

Hardly anyone liked them

I'm not sure why I posted a in there.. it's more of a or a but. I tried to do something

Keep in mind, if you try to emulate me, you will probably find that you confuse people, at best, or more likely, simply inspire people to have no response whatsoever.

So it goes in this rather dull 'reality' known as 'earth'

Ohh. So ultimately I wondered why I was trying to impress anyone at all with anything, writing or whatever. And I couldn't and still can't come up with a satisfying answer. There's the idea of getting money so that I continue doing the few things I do enjoy, but I've come to realize that these things I do enjoy always involve some sort of escape from actual life, whether it be through happy color land fantasy, or mass slaughterfests, or whatever. At some point, imagining the escape becomes not enough, and I must actually escape. And I am only writing this very post because I am still somehow insecure, but with every post and every day and every thought I become less insecure..

I can't miss me, don't I see? Almost..

Most of my writings include themes about screwed up governments, civil wars, victorian-modern settings, the unknown, or it has to be about Rock music and the current world. A lot of the inspiration I gather is from my history classes and there is always some form of massive bloodbath. Most of my Main characters are either girls or socially awkward guys.

Also, I tend to specify my characters' ethnicities. Also, there tend to be a lot more White/Asian chracters than any other ethnicity

There's also my tendancy to make the mothers either aloof, abandoning or something along the lines of not being there or being mentally unable to take care of their children. The fathers are usually much more motherly than they should be, and they are usually pretty badass in terms of their past before becoming a father.

The backstories are detailed... way too detailed, whereas my normal writing is much too vague. I feel like if I specified the story even more, I would turn it into another twilight.

In the Background, you find random spontaneous occurences that don't seem to go along with the story, but make sense in my own head.

That sounds interesting GrantingtheRant. I think history is a great inspiration.
Could you post one of your stories or a part of it in the writing showcase thread?
I'd like to read it.
Some time ago I had a similar idea.
Our world with the technology of the years between 1900-1930, but every nation that could be independent is independent.
Also minorities are bigger than normal and there are also much civil-wars (comunism, democracy, monarchy, anarchism...) , and each nation is in war with each other and the economy collapses.