I probably could've put both problems in one post, but whatever, moving along now.

Sometimes I think my story plots are too childish. The problems aren't big enough, and the solutions are too easy. What's more, they read like episodes of a TV show. Characters start at Point A, right before the problem comes up, and they're happy. Then they're at Point B, problem comes. Point C: They solve the problem, learning things about the universe and each other (and maybe themselves). Then back to Point A again, when they're happy and contented and they say a stupid joke and laugh fakely (is fakely even a word? No matter).

I HATE THAT. I hate it when a story ends the same way it started, with the characters in the exact same state as they were before they had this new experience. Unless irony was intended, of course, they should be different people, no matter how slightly different.

I think the only thing I can do to make my stories more mature is to wait until I'm an adult. No matter how mentally mature I am now, there's no way I can write like an adult until I AM an adult. Writing like an 8 year old will be easy, because I've been there. But I can't write about being 45, married, and with four kids, because I'm only 15 and I've never had a romantic relationship.

On the other hand, the fact I've realized my problem and looking at it from all angles says something too, doesn't it?

Qua "Currently a silly teenager writing adventures, not yet a 'Great American Author'* writing STORIES" rtz

*Not that anybody would want to be a 'Great American Author', because that seems too passive and Ward Cleaver to me, but whatever.