“I am broken the way most writers are, stories leaking through the cracks” -Victoria Schwab-

If there’s anything you should put your heart and soul into, it is the book you are writing. The story that comes straight from your unique brain and perspective on the world, with words placed in a way that only you can do. There’s nothing more unique than the way that you can write a book which is why this week, I’m talking about tapping into that to bring out emotion when writing.

One thing I believe I’m quite good at in writing is emotional scenes and moments. I’m able to really delving into the characters mindsets and deliver a lot of pain and anguish (sorry Luke) to make for heartbreak. It’s because I know the characters so well, but also because the particular premise of this book is very emotional itself. A person being forced to leave their family and take on a new life pretty much alone, never knowing whether they’ll get back home, and even if they did, it’d never be what it was before.

But for me, although I’d been writing these books long before, it was the loss of my father at a young age that really helped me inject even more realism into those scenes, and just general loss and adversity that I’ve had to face in life that really made things even more heightened. It really gave me an understanding that I would have just been improvising before, but upon experiencing those emotions, I can really feel it. And I know when someone reads that book, that I’m showing them real emotion through Luke, through me.

There are scenes from different books too that I have written that really still get me and the emotion just radiates through. But I think that’s just part of being a writer, putting all your feeling and emotions on the table and using them to get to the rawness of the scenes. You almost get lost in it in some way, and I think it’s only until you really can feel that moment you’re writing about, can you spread that emotion to someone reading it.

Emotion is something you really can’t fake in writing. Sure, you can give it your best shot, but I think if it’s your own creation, you’re always going to be a little emotional about it anyway. Pain itself is something that a lot of writers can use, and I don’t know whether it’s the pain that makes people become better writers or writers become writers because of pain – it could even be both. Whatever it is that drives it, pain and anguish isn’t something to fear or pull you back. It’s what drives you forward. And believe me when I say, I’m not just talking about writing here.

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N.A.K.