Hey all you YWSers!
Quick intro, I'm 25 years old, African and female, I've been a member for awhile, have recently returned from a lengthy hiatus, and I'm intending to interact a lot more again I try my hand at short stories, scripts, novels, articles and poetry, and would like to spend my life exploring every type of creative writing there is.
I have had a taste of the elixir of getting published, and I want mooooore... Feel free to read my published article on my blog: http://ekarimbvundula.blogspot.com/p/my-first-published-article.html
The topic I want to discuss is to do with courage when writing. Those with any creative writing experience at all will know that the most powerful work comes from personal emotions and experiences. It's first-hand research, if you will, and it doesn't get more realistic than that. Has anyone ever written something powerful, but it's almost too personal to publish? Or perhaps it's not personal in the sense that it happened to you, but is at odds with your perceived persona.
For example, you create a fictional character who is a lot angrier/seductive/evil/depressed than you are, do you ever worry that the people in your life who would judge you for even thinking those things if they read it? If so, how do you muster up the courage to get your best writing out there, no matter how risqué it may be?
Another question to ponder is, what about creating characters that are heavily based on people you know? Do you worry that you could hurt someone's feelings if they ever read about it?
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