The Writing Shift

Several years ago a friend told me that when a new signficant relationship would begin in my life, I wouldn't have the[image error] need to write about loss, that my writing, especially my fiction, would make a shift.

It's happening now.

While I don't foresee that I will never write about loss again (especially because I have several unfinished manuscripts that have loss as a theme that I do want to finish), I do see how loss is becoming less of a theme in my writing. It feels like my writing went from coping with loss and moved into figuring out how to go forward in life, and now it's anchored in how we have the strongest and healthiest relationships and lives possible.