I agree with you! Write what you feel emotionally to be true. There has to be some level of authenticity, something that speaks as true. For instance, I'm a man, but I believe I can write believable women in a story. We all as human beings go through pain, sorrow, joy.. those things tend to be universal. I won't be able to capture every experience with nuance, but with some help, I can at least sell the idea that this could be a person.
Yes, I think that was a good tip. It also gave me something to think about. I understand minority stress very well, even though I fit in with the norm on the outside. In the Friendship story, I used the feeling that as an ADHD person I felt that there was something wrong with me, so my inner speech is sometimes quite negative. In the story, the character feels that others are pushing her down, which is why she goes through the same thoughts. It was funny that some readers thought that the text felt true and then the other half thought that it was too negative and therefore not good. Several years ago, I had a writing teacher at a community college who has now passed away. We became close friends. I miss her sometimes. However, she often told me that I should write about my own experiences, even autofiction. In another course, I had to write a story where time periods overlap. I wrote that exercise about my own experiences when I moved from Sweden to Finland. Others would have liked to hear more and saw so much potential, but I'm just not interested in writing about my own life. A space opera story needs to use a variety of experiences. One thing I've been thinking about is the feeling I've had a couple of times while watching some space movies. For example, I was almost alone in a big theater watching Gravity in 3D. I also have haunting dreams about space, where I'm alone in the middle of interstellar space. It's horrible :D On the other hand, many people have wanted to go to space, and some of them have done it more than once.
😮 very nice
I agree with you! Write what you feel emotionally to be true. There has to be some level of authenticity, something that speaks as true. For instance, I'm a man, but I believe I can write believable women in a story. We all as human beings go through pain, sorrow, joy.. those things tend to be universal. I won't be able to capture every experience with nuance, but with some help, I can at least sell the idea that this could be a person.
Yes!
Exactly. :)
Yes, I think that was a good tip. It also gave me something to think about. I understand minority stress very well, even though I fit in with the norm on the outside.
In the Friendship story, I used the feeling that as an ADHD person I felt that there was something wrong with me, so my inner speech is sometimes quite negative. In the story, the character feels that others are pushing her down, which is why she goes through the same thoughts. It was funny that some readers thought that the text felt true and then the other half thought that it was too negative and therefore not good.
Several years ago, I had a writing teacher at a community college who has now passed away. We became close friends. I miss her sometimes. However, she often told me that I should write about my own experiences, even autofiction.
In another course, I had to write a story where time periods overlap. I wrote that exercise about my own experiences when I moved from Sweden to Finland. Others would have liked to hear more and saw so much potential, but I'm just not interested in writing about my own life.
A space opera story needs to use a variety of experiences. One thing I've been thinking about is the feeling I've had a couple of times while watching some space movies. For example, I was almost alone in a big theater watching Gravity in 3D. I also have haunting dreams about space, where I'm alone in the middle of interstellar space. It's horrible :D
On the other hand, many people have wanted to go to space, and some of them have done it more than once.
I think that's a good way to put it -- using your feelings to express the way you see the world. :)
I think we naturally use a lot of our own experiences in our writing but we're perfectly capable of writing well outside that
I think so too. We can imagine all sorts of things we've never personally experienced.