Novel sadness
Sep. 29th, 2013 06:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jules_thorpeI'm currently writing a novel called Voicemail from God. I'm currently about 52k in, and right in the middle of the book - things are pretty bad in my characters' lives. And I'm currently writing a part where my viewpoint character is pretty sad.
This is kind of unpleasant for me 'cause when my characters are sad, I am sad. There's not much cure for this, really, and of course part of the value of writing stuff like this is that it forces me to process some of my own sadnesses and so on. So it's not like it's something that I really want to cure.
It's just... sad.
I'm also convinced that every word I write is legitimately dreadful, of course, but that's normal at this stage.
This is kind of unpleasant for me 'cause when my characters are sad, I am sad. There's not much cure for this, really, and of course part of the value of writing stuff like this is that it forces me to process some of my own sadnesses and so on. So it's not like it's something that I really want to cure.
It's just... sad.
I'm also convinced that every word I write is legitimately dreadful, of course, but that's normal at this stage.
