Im using events that happened in my life, i find this enhances my creativity. Touble is i havent really gotten over some stuff emotionally and i dont kno when i will. Should i put the story aside till im ready and when will that be? or shud i just fight my way thru. Any advice would be appreciated
2006-06-11 22:02:25 · 13 answers · asked by player 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
I think you should pour out as much as you can into a first draft or journal. Do not think about how to make it perfect , just get it on the page.
Once you have done this you will either feel like telling this story is helping you to heal and then you can try to craft it into a novel or memoir.
Or you will know that it is still too soon for you. If that is the case, lock it up. And one day when time has eased the ache more you can take it back out and see if you want to work on it more.
Best of luck to you with your writing.
2006-06-19 06:23:53 · answer #1 · answered by sp_isme 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Maybe write a journal and every so often go back and pick out the highlights - maybe something that has been resolved. Will it be a novel, a book of short stories, a series of letters? Will it have illustrations, include poetry? Will it include information about family members or friends? Sometimes telling the story in another setting with imagined characters can still relate a personal experience without giving too much away. Choose your words well, vary your sentences for effect and proof read, proof read, proof read.
This may or may not be of help but do write it and I hope you get heaps of enjoyment from it.
2006-06-12 07:30:19 · answer #2 · answered by vzhnri 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Life experience is the best base for writing. It is what you know and what you feel.
Don't put the story aside, write it, and write it now. You can always go back and edit. Writing is good therapy. Sometimes when I'm upset about something, I will sit and write a letter - pages and pages long to my good friend. After I have written it, I go back, read it again, and hit the delete button. I have often told him that I should pay him for therapy, even though he never saw the letters.
Write from your heart. That is how you will reach people.
Good luck.
2006-06-12 05:48:13 · answer #3 · answered by PariahMaterial 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Writing about your experiences, especially fictionalizing the accounts of what happened, can be a very cathartic excercise. Many writer's do incorporate parts of their own lives into their work. A writer doesn't have to merely put their own experiences into their stories. Often a writer will have their characters live in and visit the same towns, cities, restaurants, etc, where the writer lives. When you put pen to paper, or type on the keyboard, it's your voice to use as you want. Develop your voice, and your stories will flow; and use your experiences to enrich your writing.
2006-06-12 10:18:12 · answer #4 · answered by Mr. Grudge 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My advice would be to write about what your feeling. If its bad feelings it doesnt matter I'm a writer and I always feel better if i write about what im feeling. Might not be for a story but its good to let it out. Plus if you write when your feelings are the way they are happy or sad all your emotion is in that writing and thats what people want. If you write about how you were feeling it wont be as good as writing about it when you are actually having the feelings. Hope that makes sense.
2006-06-12 05:39:05 · answer #5 · answered by HayB1982 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Read some books written by Mark Twain, Erskine Cardwell or Ernest Hemmingway. All of them were very good story tellers and many of the subjects they wrote about were adapted from personal events in their lives. Humor and tragedy are similar to love and hate,, sometimes it's difficult to distinguish the difference.
2006-06-12 06:01:42 · answer #6 · answered by tee_nong_noy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's difficult to judge if your life experiences would be of interest to others. You'd best write it and get an independent assessment of its merits.
On the other hand, if you are writing for yourself, writing can be good therapy. Fight your way through it, even if it's hard. You can even change the worst bits to give yourself a better outcome - kinda like rewriting your history to make it better.
Good luck.
2006-06-12 05:17:22 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Real life experiences make a book very much more real and close to the heart, but write only what you feel comfortable writing about, because there's no need to turn your life into a supermarket tabloid.
2006-06-12 05:09:17 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Writing will get you through it. It helps really. Write every day and don't take blocked for an answer. Save your stuff to go back to when you ARE blocked. Good luck.
2006-06-23 18:21:24 · answer #9 · answered by Laura B 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
An authorized autobiography would be your best bet and hire an editor if you've gaot the extra $$$
2006-06-23 17:10:03 · answer #10 · answered by ♥ jojo ♥ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋