Of course, it's sad to be sad. Don't get me wrong. What I mean when I say this is; Your protagonist being sad doesn't make a story about sadness, nor should you expect your audience to empathize with that.

Everyone gets sad, obviously. We can relate to a characters' sadness and feel it as our own, when well written. This should serve as a quick guide to common pitfalls and how/why to avoid them.

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So Vows Made in Wine just got Equestria Daily frontpaged and, guys, I've gotta be honest, their cover art is much better than my own choice. I mean, here I was, writing this bleak look on what it means to have lost the will to live, a discussion between two creatures who are desperately looking for reasons to keep going... yeah, like, what a fuckin' wanker I was, right?

So here's the coverart they used:

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[This blog post was started in the Melbourne airport at 3pm. It's being finished on Saturday at 3pm. Sorry for the delay, but between those two points is basically a nuclear powernap.]

So obviously I've been saying for a while I want to step back from pony writing, and obviously I haven't gone anywhere yet.

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