Yeah, I hate those kinds of stories too they need to be realistic or at least near
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Itās the fact that if people were to ACTUALLY portray the mafia, they would be breaking every guideline that Episode has for me.
Friendly reminder that abuse aināt cute. Itās sad also, that these stories glorify real peopleās traumas.
My real advice? Make it original. Let the mafia be the enemy in your story. Donāt let them be where our MC finds his/her love interest. Flip the idea on itās head and have a badass MC infiltrate them and shut them down from the inside. Make the cop they are working with the mysterious love interest or something. Just something different.
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I totally understand your point but im not gonna make them the enemy however something unexpected will happen
I personally love mafia stories iām writing one currently.
I think people forget that they are just stories there not meant to be realistic. When youāre a writer you have the power to write what you like and often that means it isnāt all that realistic and a writer shouldnāt feel like they have to change something or write a story thatās realistic. Thatās not what writing is about
anyway going back to the question
I donāt like the āinnocent naive girl and mafia LIā
purely because I prefer strong female characters
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I understand the point you are trying to make, however you canāt take something despicable that causes trauma to people daily and slap a hot love interest on it and call it fiction. The mafia is real, and shouldnāt be used as a āsexyā plot device. I will die on this hill haha.
I mean, you just have to know names like Giuseppe di Matteo (MASSIVE TRIGGER WARNING - GRUESOME MURDER) to get a glimpse of what Iām trying to say.
Anyway, please donāt take this as an attack on you or your character. Iām just trying to spread some awareness.
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I grow up around gangs and my step brother was killed because of it so yes I do know what itās like to an extent 
but itās still a story I would like to assume most people know there not realistic at 13+ the age the app is intended for but yes I understand your point
I get annoyed sometimes because a lot of mafia stories do follow the same plot line thatās why I write my own story different
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Agreead thats a common plot
Yeah let the women be strong have to agree i love when the woman aint under the man which can easily happen
No Iām not I am so thankful that u comment and let me know because I think your opinion is important however I will do my best to portray the mafia as realistic as possible with a touch of fiction 
Yas it gets boring after a while thatās why Iām gonna try to make it different 
healthy relationships PLEASE. i know thereās really only so much you can do to redeem fictional mafia dudes but at least try to make them happy together T_T
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I donāt read them, but I do enjoy reading the descriptions because theyāre cheesy. Itās always nice for a good chuckle.
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Very descriptive.
I donāt pin down a genre just because the genre is unrealistic (we have fantasy for that reason), but one consistent factor among mafia stories are their plot. It consists of overused themes (rival gangs want the mafia bossā daughter/girlfriend/MC dead, arranged marriage, etc.).
The characters act like NPCās. They have a program, they follow. The plot drives the characters, and the characters Iām supposed to simp all over is too bleak to be believable as a human being. And imagine that almost every story you read, you see these NPCās around.
But then again, there are good things about some good mafia/mob stories Iāve read:
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Stakes. If your characters have to achieve something, make it hard and dangerous. Make it costly, so readers genuinely fear that the said character might fail, or die trying.
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Secrecy. This works exceptionally well because it increases the hype. Imagine using that overused trope, where the LIās rival gang wants the MC, LIās girlfriend dead. Except, the LI have no idea who those people are. He couldnāt combat the situation until either MCās attacked, or dead.
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Suspense. Donāt explain everything right off the bat. Leave a character that has betrayed the mob barely surviving a murder attempt, then have that character making a comeback near the end of the story.
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