Forum: Writers


Subject: "alone"

s_roby1990 opened this issue on Sep 18, 2005 ยท 3 posts


dialyn posted Sun, 18 September 2005 at 10:18 AM

I don't know if this is part of your journal, or a start at developing a character, but the first question I have (as a reader) is why this person is choosing to be so miserable. This is someone who seems profoundly depressed, but I don't really know why they feel that way (one is rarely abandoned by everyone they know unless they are imprisoned and isolated, by nature or other people or by choice...if by choice, why). It's too vague for me to identify with as a reader, though certainly I understand in general those painful feelings because I have suffered depression myself. Feelings are real. I understand that feeling this alone is as real as actually being that isolated. I would, however, want (in a prose piece) some movement either into the emotion or out of it. Poetry is different...it is often a snatching of emotion with no beginning or end.

Just some technical points:

Neither here nor there, but what I have always been curious about is the auditon process. I can't imagine having a job where you have to interview time after time. It seems as if you are in a profession that is rich with writing possibilities because so many of us are so curious about it.

I hope that, if this is truly about your own experience, that you are out of the darkness now. It is not good for anyone to stay stuck in one gear of emotion. We were given the gift of being able to experience many feelings. When one stays too long in one place, it is a signal the one needs to do something about it. I can't suggest what for you, or for your character. But I've been where this person in your writing has been, and I know how important it is to move on.

I wish you well. I really do. Take care.