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RE: Starting Write Club and thinking out loud
Ah, that's a hard question. I find I write a 'better' story when I'm writing something I have seen or heard or felt myself. So, to me it feels like the story would be more powerful and genuine when those emotions are still fresh and strong in your own self.
Taking that a step further, it might be harder on yourself to write such a story LATER, in large part because you would have to dredge up all those memories and emotions you had forgotten and allowed to slip towards the back of your head. You'd have to drag them all to the forefront again. Not sure if that would feel good either.
Still...everyone is different, so that's just my opinion.
Hmm, yes to all that. I do sometimes wish I had written some things closer to when they happened, when their power was palpable. To write of them when their edges have softened is harder. I no longer worry about having to deal with the reliving of them as they are too far in the distant past, but the richness with which I may have been able to fictionalize them is perhaps no longer available to me. Sigh. There is never any “right” answer in these things, is there?
Definitely no right answer, but looking into my past at times when I was overwhelmed by sadness, I don't think I'd be able to write a coherent story. Gotta wait at least a little bit for your mind to settle.
So true. On another note, I think you may have been traveling when they picked the current Write Club victims—er, participants. I see you doing this in a future round, don’t you?
I certainly wouldn't mind doing it in a future round. Far too crazy over the holidays though, with traveling and other stuff. For now I shall watch from the sidelines as you all suffer.