Challenging Emotions

[Kassiana]

I'm not always sure I've gotten across the emotions I want to when I've written a story. My latest, In the Rain, was like that. It was based on a traumatic experience of my own. But the comments I've gotten indicate I did okay at communicating what I felt at the time.

 

[Raging Whoremoans]

Turmoil.

I mainly see things in black & white. I find writing sluggish when I attempt to write the wishy-washy feeling that sometimes happens to a character.

 

[SeaCat]

Hey great thread.
I have a really hard time dealing with emotions when i write. Maybe it has something to do with the way I was raised. Moving around like I did I learned quickly to bottle up my emotions. Maybe that's why I was so self destructive for so long? Maybe it had something to do with giving myself over completely to someone when I was eighteen, then having her torn away from me. For too many years though I lived with my emotions bottled up, and still I sometimes have trouble dealing with them. Writing them is like adding salt to an open wound, I'll find myself re-writing a scene or a passage so many times I can't recognise it when I'm done.

Cat