I’ve seen people talk about actors and artists that had a terrible time.
My own would be Anne Rice. She wrote Interview with the Vampire after her young daughter died of Leukemia. Then her husband suddenly died of a brain hemorrhage. I suspect her Christian, anti-fanfic phase was a result of mental illness and manipulation from the publishers, although I don’t think she ever apologized.
I looked it up and tried to read some of it. It isn’t completely horrible if taken for what it was - a young writer’s first attempt at creating something. If someone had taken him under their wing and gave him some solid advice (and stole his thesaurus), he might have become a very well-known, celebrated fantasy author. Weird the turns life takes and people suck sometimes…
“Grignr leashed his mount forward as the hoarsely piercing battle cry of his wilderness bred race resounded from his grinding lungs.”
Totally reminds me of my writing at a similar age.
Too many adjectives! I still do this to an extent.