Is it normal i sometimes worry what i create can have negative affects?

So I’m an aspiring writer, and while I know there’s no guarantee of success, even if only a few people read my books, there’s still a chance that somehow it could negatively affect them. My story is a fantasy series like Harry Potter or Star Wars, and I’ve imagined fictional weapons, and what if someone tries to create them in real life? Or what if someone feels bold enough to try to copy a scene for some reason and hurts themselves? (I’ve heard stories of kids dying from trying to copy super heroes for instance).

This is probably being overly worrisome, even if I get published I probably won’t have THAT much influence on people’s lives, but you never know, people can get very passionate about things they’re fans of. I try to tell myself that if someone is that reckless and/or malicious, they probably would do something like that whether they read my book or not. But on the flip-side, I thought that since the same logic can be applied to good influences, why even bother writing anything if you’re not going to have SOME sort of affect, one way or another!?

Maybe I just overestimate my influence, but I just want to be safe.

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  • CountessDouche

    Honestly, anything you do in life can have an unintended potentially negative impact & if you thought about all of your actions this obsessively you would never do anything ever & that's no way to live.

    Just remind yourself that reading has been shown time & time again to have a profoundly POSITIVE impact on people, (language development, curiousity, vocabulary, ability to concentrate, creativity, imagination, & on & on & on) & great stories, especially well written fantasy stories are exactly the types of books that create a lifelong passion for reading in young people.

    I can't even begin to stress how much a love of reading has positively affected my life.

    Books are a great thing to give the world.

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