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IT'S YOUR CHOICE

Blog City Prompt: “Writers write about what obsesses them... I lost my mother when I was 14. My daughter died at the age of 6. I lost my faith as a Catholic. When I'm writing, the darkness is always there. I go where the pain is.” Anne Rice
What do you think of Ann Rice’s approach? Do you also go, in your writing, to where the pain is?

When I wrote Starman, I wrote about his pain of losing his wife. It was not my pain.

When I wrote The Calling, it was about the family's loss of a son, espeially his mother's pain. It was not my pain

In Knights of Sparrow, when Paloo has to tell Brezay that his father, the Grandmaster was executed, it caused enormous pain. But it was not my pain.

Darkness and pain are a kind of dramatic device, very effective in short stories and novels. If you are bringing up your own personal pain, then it becomes biographical, and not my style. For other writers this may be their deepest source.

I think obsessing about pain and loss is not the end of it. There is transformation and suviving and recovery. The beautiful and heroic parts of life that lift the reader far above the pain. That's what we want to read about. Yes?

Do not sink into the darkness...>>>iggy

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