"Happiness is a warm keyboard=I live to and love to write"

Questioning life and every aspect of it helps a writer in their craft, deepens their character’s outlook and personality traits.

Life’s uplifting moments as well as its painful losses will add depth to a writer’s perspective, blending colors, shading dimensions and backgrounds. Channeling life’s adversity into characters and tales can be cathartic too. I found this to be true as I faced a quagmire of pain this last year and turned to writing as an outlet for complicated feelings. 

I had trouble accepting the truth of my loss and needed to make sense of it, which I couldn’t and still can’t, but each day I’ve walked through has trumpeted the truth of it anyway. I could choose to wallow in pain and become stagnant, watching each day die without interest, or I could try to resurrect my inner light and redefine this life I had left to live.

So I try to find a glimmer of happiness within each sunrise and sunset and doing that, has led me back to writing.

When I’m in the writer's zone, zombie like moments of creation, I have transcended my personal pain for those moments, but I've noticed changes in how I write.

My writers tone, my voice, has changed. My optimism of before has taken a backseat to something I couldn’t at first define, but have slowly come to accept. My lens has clouded over and I write now with a slant towards pessimism. It has seeped into my characters personal outlook too. I’ve used humorous sarcasm in characters dialogues before but as of late, the dialogue has an edge.

I suppose questioning life and searching for answers is shaping my stories. I don't know if its a good thing, only my readers can tell me if my stories are better for it, or not. But for now, it's where my writer’s head is at and I can only follow where my thoughts are taking me. Still, I do hope what I’m creating is enjoyable to read. I only know it's necessary and enjoyable for me to keep writing.

The journey of a writer is fraught with pebbles of emotions, dropped on our heads, stepped on with our feet and we take these pebbles and crush them into powders and drizzle them over our tales. These are our truths; the personal threads within the stories we pen.

I've heard it said, write what you know and if that is the best advise....then let your happiness, your sorrow, your dreams, fulfilled and unfulfilled, have a voice in your stories.

Thanks for listening 

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