Ah, writing stories… it’s the hardships and traumas in life that help me get in touch with my feelings about certain situations that crop up in my stories.
My latest (personal) story was about my mama dog, an Australian Shepherd who was hit then ran over by a car. I suffered loss and terrible grief as did my son. At times I want to rage at the person, but it does no good to blame ourselves or others when bad things happen, even though the person blames us for her death, rather than admitting they were driving too fast and failed to stop. Nevertheless, these events in life help authors get in touch with feelings, but when situations arise in a story where we have no experience, sometimes we can ‘imagine’ ourselves experiencing such an event and how we might feel, and when that fails, there’s some very good ‘emotion thesaurus’ online that help out as well as other online helps. Right now, I’m reading a series of eleven books, so far, the David Wolf Mystery Thrillers, and I cannot imagine how the author comes up with all these scenarios. I love mystery thrillers but don’t write in this genre because my mind doesn’t go there. You’d think after reading Clive Cussler, James Rollins, and books like the ones I’m immersed in now I’d be able to but not so. I’d have to go online and look up true crimes to see what sort of crimes have been committed and how I could use those in a story. Now that’s an idea, in case I’m bored with writing about angels. But hey, maybe I could include the angels and demons in murder mysteries. I’ll have to look in the Bible and see if there’s any mysteries in there I could steal an idea or two from. It’s always a good jumping off point. Come to think of it, I could use the story of my mama dog as a starting point, maybe the person was running away from a crime or fleeing from someone who was after them and couldn’t stop for fear of being caught or themselves being murdered. Nice. I’ll toss that into AI and see what sort of outline it comes up with and if it’s something I can work with to write a mystery. Okay. See you next time around.
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