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Sometimes you just have a bad day.
The people who tell stories are just like anyone else. The difference, though, is that if something in their life goes all [[Discworld|wahoonie-shaped]], they have someone to take it out on -- the fictional characters that inhabit their created worlds. Thus, you occasionally end up with a story taking a sharp left turn into the author's psyche. Characters can [[Kill
Note that this doesn't necessarily make it ''bad''; some shows have achieved their highest [[Ratings]] in the middle of a bout of [[Creator Breakdown]], and it would be hard to argue that angst can't help you make some really good music. People who have something to work out through their creativity also tend to put a lot of effort into making it good, if it's concerning something important or special to them. See also [[Reality Subtext]]. However, look out for the [[Writer On Board]]. It can also lead to an overload of [[Wangst]] or [[Deus Angst Machina]] if the creator is ''really'' determined to make their creation suffer in their name. The most volatile demonstrations of the [[Second Law of Metafictional Thermodynamics]] arise from a [[Creator Breakdown]].
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