1/ I love Anne Rice's advice: go where the pain is. In her words: “Writers write about what obsesses them. I lost my mother when I was 14. My daughter died at the age of 6. I lost my faith as a Catholic. When I'm writing, the darkness is always there. I go where the pain is.”
2/ I know a lot of writers tap into their own pain, fear, and anxiety when they write. It's often their own therapy. The nuggets and gems they draw from that often end up in their characters and story arc.
If those things are taking up space in your head, you may as well explore them and use them. Make them pay rent. It fits with Ray Bradbury's advice: When you write, don’t think. You must feel. Do your thinking elsewhere.
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