#writerproblems

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Life gives us inspiration. It gives us experiences to draw from – story fodder. But we don’t always have to like it.

My brother-in-law – my sister’s husband – passed away a little more than a week ago after a long drawn out fight with cancer. I’m still processing it, and likely will be for a while.

I wasn’t super close with him (the six hour drive made visiting an infrequent event), but he and my sister had been together for eleven years. Maybe if we had been closer, I would feel less mercenary.

All experiences feed writing, and this is no different. Events like this tend to provide an inordinate amount of story-fodder.

Giving myself permission to be ok with that is something else entirely because it feels like I’m profiting from misery. Except that my brother-in-law would be ecstatic to have helped my writing in some way. He was pretty fantastic like that.

Sometimes hashtags just say it best: #writerproblems

 

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