The melancholy is back. I realized it suddenly right in the middle of class. We were really Keats "Ode to a Nightingale" and I nearly cried
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I like you're made up words and positive feed back means a lot coming from you.
As for the lack of sense...yes...my first drafts make no sense...my second drafts are vague....by draft 3 or 4 the narrative should make sense. It's about how falling in love sets the narrator (who am I kidding me) into depression. Not because the love is unrequited the narrator assumes they could get into a relationship...and the narrator regularly falls in and out of love....the melancholy is this cycle that keeps coming back like manic depression. And in a Keats like fashion the narrator begins to wallow in the depression almost enjoying it. Being able to tell when a cycle of depression is coming but never noticing when they get happy again until a sudden epiphany that they are in love again comes about. It's more about feeling emotional extremes then being in love at the moment...whether the person that inspired it is going to see it might effect how detailed it gets and how personally specific it gets.
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As for the lack of sense...yes...my first drafts make no sense...my second drafts are vague....by draft 3 or 4 the narrative should make sense. It's about how falling in love sets the narrator (who am I kidding me) into depression. Not because the love is unrequited the narrator assumes they could get into a relationship...and the narrator regularly falls in and out of love....the melancholy is this cycle that keeps coming back like manic depression. And in a Keats like fashion the narrator begins to wallow in the depression almost enjoying it. Being able to tell when a cycle of depression is coming but never noticing when they get happy again until a sudden epiphany that they are in love again comes about. It's more about feeling emotional extremes then being in love at the moment...whether the person that inspired it is going to see it might effect how detailed it gets and how personally specific it gets.
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