(disclaimer: I'm sorry, I would not put this here if there was anywhere else I knew of to take this question to that I trusted)
1) I feel like I have the opposite of bad reading comprehension kind of, like bad writing comprehension. I don't tend to have it outside of situations where I need advice. Like every third thing I type is me having to explain what I meant and why like "I didn't mean that I want my characters to be one-dimensional, I meant-" "I never said I hated all horror fiction, I was just trying to say-" (none of these are based on real situations to be clear.)
2) How do I respond to feedback where I don't know what it means, or what taking said advice even looks like, and can't press further on the comment? Like if someone says I act entitled to peoples time or that I treat people like they already understand my writing (I couldn't think of things to make up so I actually used real things people said about me). I want to stop doing the thing but don't even properly understand what or why it is.
I plan to go to some sort of behavior therapist about these things someday, but what should I do in the meantime? (also i can't really explain them to a full outsider to my life without great difficulty, so that will be an issue)
3) How do I make my drawings shapes dynamic if the drawing is framed in a flat manner? Like if two characters are staring at each other, of course that's going to be a straight ahead angle, but how would I frame that in a not boring way? Like how would I break this pose down into not boring not flat shapes if the whole sequence just naturally lends itself to looking flat when drawn?
4) How do you make a character display their personality in a story where it would very much not fit the story for them to give an "in-character" response? Like if the character is Wednesday Addams-esque in nature but the story is about her desperately trying to find her missing mother and saving her from a comic horror god, so creepy and snarky stoicism just does not work, or they're flamboyant and feminine but the story is about his insecurities about his adopted family and about the idea that their femininity makes them less than, so camp femininity just does not fit the narrative?
5) In one of my stories there’s a taboo about a character wanting to play music when they’re expected to be a hero/fighter figure because of her family legacy of violent power, and i’ve been told that there being an anti-music taboo is confusing. Is that true? Does it need further explanation?
