Ernest Hemingway - 'Write hard and clear about what hurts. '
How difficult it is, to wring out emotions that normally are buried under layers and layers of protective plastic tarpaulin, desensitized and sterilized such that a bare twitch of the corners of one's lips are all that hints at the overwhelming whirlpool going on inside?
Cathartic writing in a sense, alongside song-writing, is one of those things where you strip yourself bare to the alabaster bone, lay out all pain and underbelly vulnerability and eccentric thoughts that are not shared with others for fear of misunderstanding and discrimination.
And this is what makes it doubly painful, forcing yourself to write in things that viscerally hurt you in RL for your characters within the storyboard- because all you really want in the end is for your character to have that fairytale ending where good always triumphs over evil, where serendipity is not wasted, where courage is taken hold of and where change moves mountains (even if it can't happen in reality).
If I can't feel the acute pain that my character does, I can't write about it truthfully. If I can't shed tears for my character, who will?
The least I can do after all that suffering, is to give my character that happy ending he/she deserves:)
Cathartic writing in a sense, alongside song-writing, is one of those things where you strip yourself bare to the alabaster bone, lay out all pain and underbelly vulnerability and eccentric thoughts that are not shared with others for fear of misunderstanding and discrimination.
And this is what makes it doubly painful, forcing yourself to write in things that viscerally hurt you in RL for your characters within the storyboard- because all you really want in the end is for your character to have that fairytale ending where good always triumphs over evil, where serendipity is not wasted, where courage is taken hold of and where change moves mountains (even if it can't happen in reality).
If I can't feel the acute pain that my character does, I can't write about it truthfully. If I can't shed tears for my character, who will?
The least I can do after all that suffering, is to give my character that happy ending he/she deserves:)