Writing Emotional Subject Matter -- discuss.
blue_fjords, I blame you.
Okay, open discussion for anyone who feels like wandering in. I'm working, by request, on a meta on how to write emotional or difficult subject matter.
For the writers among you: how do you deal with emotional subject matter in your stories? Do you think about how to construct the fic, do you think specifically about how the character would cope, how they would display emotions? Do you research? Do you avoid certain types of plot because you don't want to deal with the issues associated with it?
For the readers among you: have you ever stopped reading fic because something was too unrealistic? Or, the reverse, has a fic ever made you cry because it hit that close to home? What is it about the way a fic handles emotional subjects or difficult subjects that makes you go, Yes!, and what makes you go, No!, very loudly?
Discuss. Comment. Ask questions. Just lemme know what you think!
23/06/2009: DISCUSSION CLOSED.
Okay, open discussion for anyone who feels like wandering in. I'm working, by request, on a meta on how to write emotional or difficult subject matter.
For the writers among you: how do you deal with emotional subject matter in your stories? Do you think about how to construct the fic, do you think specifically about how the character would cope, how they would display emotions? Do you research? Do you avoid certain types of plot because you don't want to deal with the issues associated with it?
For the readers among you: have you ever stopped reading fic because something was too unrealistic? Or, the reverse, has a fic ever made you cry because it hit that close to home? What is it about the way a fic handles emotional subjects or difficult subjects that makes you go, Yes!, and what makes you go, No!, very loudly?
Discuss. Comment. Ask questions. Just lemme know what you think!
23/06/2009: DISCUSSION CLOSED.