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RokofAges75:
Secrets of the Heart was very cathartic for me in the beginning.   I started writing it one weekend when I was really stressed over work and desperately needed an escape.  Writing is an outlet for me, but like I said, I usually can't do it when I'm upset about something.  That weekend, I was able to push it all to the back of my mind and just write.  I churned out the first couple chapters of that story almost effortlessly and got so into it, I was able to forget all the crap on my mind.  It was amazing.  And then real life got in the way again and it took me four years to finish the thing LOL.

I don't usually write stories that are based directly on my own personal experiences, mostly because my life hasn't been interesting or tragic enough to make good fan fiction (not the kind I like to write, anyway), but every once in awhile, art imitates life and life imitates art.  Curtain Call wasn't intended to be personal at all, but it became that way when a friend of mine was diagnosed with terminal cancer as I was writing that story.  She died the day after I posted the ending.  I wasn't sure whether that would help or hurt it, and in the end, I think it was a little of both.  It did make it easier for me to relate to my characters and have some idea of what they were going through, and I think it also gave me a way to work through my own emotions and sort of prepare myself for what was inevitably coming.  I became kind of stoic and detached while writing the story, especially toward the end, while I was very emotional in real life.  It was definitely cathartic.

Carter-Orange:
I usually write stuff to escape my dull life, lol, so most of what I write doesn't contain anything from my real life.  The only story of mine which has come close to my real life is a Take That story called Patience.  I had the main character fall in love with Jason in France.  While that obviously wasn't true (I wish!) I did go there on holiday, and I also wrote about people/places I know well.

I'd say Rewind was quite cathartic for me.  I do sometimes wonder what life would be like if I'd made different decisions.

FrickingKaos:
Well not so much writing but reading can be cathartic for me. I've told Rose several times but Remember Me This Way touched me a lot. I had a grandmother with Alzheimer's disease, not early onset like Nick had, but I went through what Brian went through....see ing him deteriorate like that. It was definitely theraputic for me to read about it and it did kind of give me closure. The scene that really got to me was at the end when Nick didn't know who Brian was or even his own voice on the radio....that really made me emotional.

Bringing me to my question related to Julie's - is there anything you've read that has helped you deal with real life experiences?

RokofAges75:
That's a good question.  I can't really think of any examples off-hand, mostly because, to be honest, I haven't dealt with anything in my real life that's been nearly as tragic and over-the-top as the stuff I like to read in stories.  I guess what I was talking about in my last post is the closest.  But I do think reading really dramatic stuff helps me put things into perspective and remember how good I've got it most of the time.

mare:
Generally when I read fan fiction, it doesn't tend to get to me that often but there were certain scenes in Curtain Call while I was reading it this summer that just brought back memories of my friend Jean and her battle with cancer as well as so many other people I have lost to that horrible disease.

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