My problem - and I'm sure many writers have it, not just newbies like me - is deciding where to start. My first thought was with the shed, because that's where my adventures really began, but then I realized I would have to tell about Mr Bowditch first, and how we became close. ...
You must know how a particular pain feels to describe it accurately. But what if you’re lucky and never had the same pain as your character? In that case, you should research to find out what it’s like. Watching documentaries about real-life traumas can help. For instance, the Net...
He had night- mares about it over the years but tried not to focus on it. He started writing about it, then kept going. It helped. As he wrote, Desouvre asked himself how he felt about the traumas of his life...
you don’t need too much interiority in flash. Certainly, tell us when your main character has important thoughts, reactions, or traumas: the reader wants to connect with your character, after all. But the reader doesn’t need to know every thought in the protagonist’s brain:...
Wondering how to write your birth story? The Writing Your Birth Story course guides you to finished story. Created by a doula/writer. Birth story help.
At 18, Katie Stubblefield lost her face. At 21, she became the youngest person in the U.S. to undergo the still experimental surgery. Follow her incredible story.
Emotional baggagerefers to the unresolved psychological issues, past experiences, or traumas that individuals carry with them into their current relationships. These lingering emotions often stem from previous romantic relationships, childhood experiences, or significant life events that left an emotional imp...
1. p.138 “This large body of research shows that although traumas, crises, and tragedies come in a thousand forms, people benefit from them in three primary ways… Rising to a challenge reveals your hidden abilities, and seeing these abilities changes your self-concept... Adversity is a ...
to your body. And when your state of safety, a whole lot of changes, oftentimes positive ones, happen with the body. And depending on what state you’re in, the same event can impact the same person differently. And this can change over time based on past experience...
In her article at Forbes, CEO of meQuilibrium Jan Bruce refers to Cade Miles’s thoughts on why creativity matters for entrepreneurs. She writes about how to find out if your creative genius doesn’t sleep: You are creative if you implement the right kind of structure. ...