WRITING REAL EMOTIONAL STORIES

As a writer, one of my goals is to write with actual emotion.

It hasn’t always easy. It is always terrifying. I can guarantee it’s going to hurt. But it will always be worth it ultimately.

This isn’t a story meant to make you cry. It’s meant to take you on a journey of those deep dark emotional enigmas, you, families and friends prefer to forget. My goal is show just how powerful those some emotional stories can be; how damaging they are even when they remain protected. One of the things that needs to be noted is that some of the chapters could go deeper than you presumed.

At this point in my writing, when I am told to go deeper and explore any hidden chapter of my life yet untold, I know I need to become stronger to contain more emotions.

I am not going to lie. The past few years has been the worst I have ever experienced within my personal life. I wasn’t sure I could go way deeper because inside I feel empty, drained, emotionally negated. It hasn’t been easy, it’s been challenging and the last thing I wanted to do was go to that place in my soul I have been protecting so hard these past few years to avoid breaking down, also when things crop up from the present it lures the past emotions.

I have said that when I write, if a scene doesn’t touch me, doesn’t touch my own heart, then I need to rewrite it, that’s what an untold true-life story is all about. I have shared in the past how devastating some scenes have been for me in my already submitted manuscript, how I place so much of myself, my heart into my characters that by the time I send that story to the publisher, I was exhausted.

This second true-life story book I am currently writing is no different. Last few times I snivelled especially when things continue to break me down emotionally. It’s been a while since I have wept that hard due to what has been happening around me, so on all sides of that I couldn’t stand the thoughts anymore. I even shared a little of my book preview from the already submitted manuscript having been asked a lot of times afterward, especially when I was able to do so without breaking down. Cautionary, I am not the cutest of criers but if I want to provoke real emotion within my stories, within you as my reader, then you merit my trustworthiness ultimately.