When emotions overwhelm you, write a letter to the one who caused you grief

Writing can stir up all kinds of memories and feelings, and sometimes despite all your efforts to stay on task (write your story according to how you want it to go), you get so emotional, your need to get closure with a certain person (whoever caused you grief in the past) is so strong, you can’t focus on your writing.

Usually, two things happen.

One, you pour all your distress into your writing, and it can then go sideways or lead you to a dead end, which will frustrate you even more and ca...