User blog comment:MichaelDiaz101/A Visit From Dad/@comment-26358727-20180215140938/@comment-4059927-20180216010950

I see one-shots others have written on here and it is easy for me to become inspired, to believe that this character has different ideas of what is going on around them and what they see and it compels me to write more and more. I see my own faults as a writer and work to improve them. Putting the work side-by-side with others and seeing how it stacks up is the best criticism that I've found as of late. Seeing where someone does something better just makes me want to improve that side of my writing and add knew bits to it is amazing.

I guess I've taken inspiration from my own experience with fatherly figures, which has been kind of limited in all honesty. My stepdad was mean, and ruthless, my father was distant, and dark. I honestly never met a true fatherly figure until I met my wife's family when I was in my twenties. It seems, in one way or another, that parents and kids are becoming more and more distant from each other. Not sure where the line is drawn. I don't personally believe children are becoming more entitled, in fact I think kids are less entitled than previous generations. I kind of side with the kids on this, because I personally think parents are closed off to the social anxieties kids are having growing up. There's a lot of things kids of the current generation are going through that the parents never really went through, hell many of the stories my fourteen year old cousin tells me are completely different from anything I ever heard when I was her age.