WRITING REAL EMOTIONAL STORIES!

As a writer, one of my aim is to write with actual emotion. It hasn’t always been easy. It is always terrifying. I can guarantee it is going to hurt. But it will always be worth it in the end.

This isn’t a story meant to make you cry. It’s meant to take you on a voyage of those deep dark emotional enigmas, you, families and friends choose to forget. My aim 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 get deeper than you presumed.

At this point in my writing, when I am told to get deeper and explore any hidden chapter of my life yet untold, I realise 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 get way deeper because inside I feel empty, drained, emotionally negated. It hasn’t been easy, it has been challenging and the last thing I wanted to do was get to that place in my soul I have been protecting very 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 sent that story to the publisher, I was exhausted.

This second true-life story book I currently completed 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, consequently on all sides of that I couldn’t stand the thoughts anymore.

I even shared some of my book preview from the already submitted manuscript having been asked a lot of times afterward, that was especially when I was able to share without breaking down.

Cautionary, I ain't the cutest of criers but if I want to provoke real emotion within my stories, within you as my readers, then you merit my trustworthiness ultimately.