Life sucks, we all know it and we've all lived through harsh events and broken hearts and bones to prove it. And when things burn on the inside, we long to release it. Some of us scream into pillows or go target shooting or yell at whoever has done us wrong. Some people choose to do something that I hope no one reading this has had to do (or if you had, never has to do again): cutting. But I have found a much more safe and peaceful release ... although I might have broken a few letters off the keyboard in the process.
Write. Don't think. Just let everything on your mind fall through your fingers and type up a jumbled mess of pure emotion. If you need to, post it on a blog (like this) or read it to someone who cares or who you think needs to hear it.
Obviously, this can apply to the good times, but those are a little less hazardous and a little easier to deal with. So if you feel the need to stab someone very hard and very violently ... please don't. Write; you'd be surprised what you can conjure out of pain.
And when things go right, let that light shine in you and pour it into the paper along with your pain. Give your writing some real emotion. Like we've said before: write what you know. Let your writing breath and feel and know. Let your readers feel that.
inveigle (verb):1. To persuade by ingenuity or flattery; to entice. 2. To obtain by ingenuity or flattery.
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