Karen GoatKeeper's Blog - Posts Tagged "taking-on-serious-topics"
Life or Fiction?
My Hazel #3 draft is taking another unexpected but logical turn. It is getting darker, delving into feelings and thoughts not very welcome.
Teenagers feel things so much more than those of us who are older. Every crisis seems more dire. Every slight is a slap in the face. Every hurt is hospital bound.
There is scientific basis for these reactions. The teenage brain is changing. Parts related to feelings, impulse and risk are gaining faster than the parts reining in the excesses.
My books are about Hazel. Yet other characters threaten to overwhelm her in this draft. She will be central to the climax and conclusion so maybe I don't need to worry about the secondary characters getting too powerful.
The part I'm not enjoying are all the emotions and decisions I made so long ago. Yet those choices have taken a serious turn as a friend is facing them now. How do you help a friend in the midst of a tornado find her feet to stand up before she is swept away?
My answer for now is to write and keep writing revisiting my own tornado. And hoping the result will help others find rock to stand on.
Teenagers feel things so much more than those of us who are older. Every crisis seems more dire. Every slight is a slap in the face. Every hurt is hospital bound.
There is scientific basis for these reactions. The teenage brain is changing. Parts related to feelings, impulse and risk are gaining faster than the parts reining in the excesses.
My books are about Hazel. Yet other characters threaten to overwhelm her in this draft. She will be central to the climax and conclusion so maybe I don't need to worry about the secondary characters getting too powerful.
The part I'm not enjoying are all the emotions and decisions I made so long ago. Yet those choices have taken a serious turn as a friend is facing them now. How do you help a friend in the midst of a tornado find her feet to stand up before she is swept away?
My answer for now is to write and keep writing revisiting my own tornado. And hoping the result will help others find rock to stand on.
