 For Authors: August 06, 2008 Issue [#2537] |
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| I've read and heard so often to write what one knows. However, that wasn't going to be the topic for this issue. I was going to continue the series about making the most of conferences -- that is until life interrupted. |
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Writing about Life
We had planned to go to Colorado for our older son's official retirement ceremony. He's retiring after twenty years in the Air Force. I would have all the business up to date so I could leave it. My newsletters would be written and submitted in advance. I could have a real vacation, the first in many, many years. I couldn't wait.
Then life laughed and sent trials and tribulations. I became ill, more than one infection, including one in the little finger on my right hand (try typing without that finger). My nephew's car caught fire and burned down. Thankfully he wasn't hurt, but he and his family were left afoot. Our younger son's pickup overheated, and he needed help. My nephew's wife, who's expecting, is having trouble and no vehicle. Robert isn't doing well.
My birthday was spent at the doctor's office and then trying to survive a horrendous migraine. (Thanks to friends, the day was still great.)
Then I had this newsletter finished, and all but the first and last paragraphs disappeared.
So as I sat in front of the computer with a lap full of lemons, I didn't know for sure how I'd make lemonade this time. However, I realized that to make characters believable, they can't be perfect or have perfect lives. Who can better show what a character suffers with a migraine than someone who knows? Who can show how a person acts and feels when ill than someone who has been ill? Who else to show frustrations and aggravations when trials and tribulations appear than someone who knows?
So if you read one of my stories or novels in the future, and a character's situation and troubles seem familiar, just remember this issue of For Authors Newsletter.
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Apparently none of the readers of last month's issue had anything to say. At least no feedback was sent, so no comments are available to share.
Next month, I'll go back to the conference series: How to keep the conference excitement alive.
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