Friday Rants and Raves - March 14

[sarillia]

It's that time again! I don't know about you but the weeks are just flying by for me. It's kind of scaring me.

These weekly posts have been helping me. I got some work done yesterday because I wanted to be able to brag about it today. :p

I hope you're enjoying them too.

Today's picture is called The Wounded Angel by Hugo Simberg.

Comments

[sarillia]

I've started a new story that I will hopefully be able to submit to one of the open calls that agilebrit was nice enough to tell us about.

I was having another one of my "I suck and no one is ever going to want to read anything I write" crises of confidence but I think I'm getting past it. I think I know what's at the heart of it now. It's a worry that my writing is shallow, like a little kid playing house without understanding what it's really like to be an adult. I feel like I don't have enough life experience to make my characters' problems feel real. But I'm going to do my best and I really should stop writing it off before getting anyone else's opinion. So now I'm just going to write.

[inkdust]

I know what you mean about not having enough life experience. Whenever I try to write a character going through things I really, really haven't experienced, and especially characters considerably older than me, I feel like I'll be seen as a fake. But I try to trust the idea of "collective human experience" and the fact that feelings are feelings no matter what sparks them. You definitely have the right attitude - just write.

[sarillia]

Yeah, I'm trying to draw from personal stories I've heard from other people and other books I've read and movies I've seen as well as extrapolating from the emotions I felt from the things I have experienced. I guess that's mostly what anyone does, even when they have more life experience than me.

[splinteredstar]

I think I've noticed that with older characters as well. I mean, younger than me? I remember being 15 well enough. But 45? No idea how that works.