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Question of the day part 8
RokofAges75:
As cathartic as writing can be, I do find it really hard to focus when I'm truly upset about something going on in real life because I can't stop thinking about it long enough to concentrate on the story. Only once in awhile does that actually work. I write best when I am stress-free and commitment-less, and how often does that actually happen? LOL Pretty much only in the summer or on holiday breaks! The rest of the year, I'm lucky if I can even get much writing done on the weekends.
RokofAges75:
New questions:
What's the most cathartic writing experience you've had?
What's the most personal story (or scene) you've written?
Rose:
Most cathartic is writing Aaron in Remember Me This Way. I took the Aaron we saw on Twitter (an ass lol) and mixed it with my brother, who's always had horrible substance abuse problems. Even though I'm younger, I was always in the place of Nick. Where I did well in what I tried to do and my brother blamed me for all his failings. I did everything I could to help despite him hating me (not to go into too much detail) but you hit this point where you learn to just let go. So writing that out from Nick's perspective really helped me deal with it cause I had a lot going on with my brother as I wrote that story.
As for most personal...I think the Carter family bits in RMTW. My family is pretty dysfunctional (just not on the same level lol) but we're more loyal to each other. And thankfully my parents were NOTHING like his LOL. But I found when I wrote about Nick's family, a lot of my emotions on my own got tied up into that.
mare:
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on November 12, 2012, 07:57:05 PM ---As cathartic as writing can be, I do find it really hard to focus when I'm truly upset about something going on in real life because I can't stop thinking about it long enough to concentrate on the story. Only once in awhile does that actually work. I write best when I am stress-free and commitment-less, and how often does that actually happen? LOL Pretty much only in the summer or on holiday breaks! The rest of the year, I'm lucky if I can even get much writing done on the weekends.
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Same here, which is why my muse is very dead! lol
mare:
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on November 12, 2012, 08:07:51 PM ---New questions:
What's the most cathartic writing experience you've had?
What's the most personal story (or scene) you've written?
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Good questions! For me the most cathartic and personal come from the same story, Season's of Change. Writing that story in general was a very cathartic experience for me since so much of it was pulled from my actual life. It's hard to write an autobiography and then 'fictionalize' it but it ended up really helping me heal from many of those things.
The most personal chapter I've ever written was my birthday chapter in Seasons because it was the most real thing I've ever written. Pretty much every ounce of that chapter was pure true story so much so that it took me several days to write it and I was very hesitant to ever post it. It felt like I was sharing a page from my diary for everyone to see, even though at the time no one knew it but me. LOL
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