My Author Brand™ is getting weird

I’ve been noticing trends in my writing lately.

That’s pretty normal for authors. There are things we like to come back to again and again: certain themes, tropes, and plot points are bound to come up in different stories over and over. It’s great fodder for English-class essays.

Of course I have those sort of trends. Similar themes, similar characters are everywhere.

But I’ve been noticing, like, weird things.

Stupid things.

Things that I should have absolutely no reason to repea...