Writing as a tool to deal with ... death

[nadinbrzezinski]

yes my dad passed, no it wasn't unexpected, so we have few if any of the guilt issues that come with people dying out of the blue. So how or what did I do? I started a short story... on death.. using very much a Latin American Fantastic Realism theme. It was and still is GREAT.

I highly sugest using your creative juices when inevitably, we all face that.

Still working on it, a sentence here, a paragraph there, using an IPOD... it was, I swear, therapy.

[sybylla]

1. I've done it in the past - when my BIL committed suicide and I was there to find the body

It did help me work out why he did what he did and what it meant to me. It was a surreal experience for me and I always thought, if I could get the right perspective and plot, I might be able to create a flash fiction or short out of it. But suicide is always hard to talk to others about. No one wants to hear it - at least not publicly.

And, seventeen years later, I still don't have a good angle on it.

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. Ok an adventure in story

It started as a paragraph here, sentence there. and after I printed it I went... BLECH. Seems not having the necessary continuity in concentration... so took the concept and worked on it into a fantastic realism\ science fiction\ quantum mechanics thing. Finished draft zero today... a few minutes ago. Will let it be for a while, but I think I got something interesting that may fit a few mags,