August 16th, 2012 at 09:01pm
Hi, thank you for your comment on my short story. I kind of have to say something. To be honest that story took me like five minutes to write, I really gave no thought to what choice of words I should use. It was probably one of the few times that I didn't care what the reader would think. At the time that I wrote that, I actually had never experienced the kind of feelings I wrote and explained in full detail. I tried to put myself in someone's life, someone who was feeling those feelings. I think that I wrote it because I wanted to try to understand what people feel like with those kinds of things.
My mom told me that right after my grandma died I became like seriously depressed. I would write death stories. (I didn't know until after I wrote this) And she got so scared and she burned them all and started us in therapy. She couldn't help me because she was having her own issues coping. But to be 100% honest, I have absolutely no recollection of any of that.
I guess what I think I'm trying to say is that now, I think of that story as kind of an accident. I didn't mean to write it, it just happened. I don't know how, and I don't know what I was thinking while I wrote it. It just... wrote itself I guess.
Anyways, thanks for the comment. And sorry for my uncalled-for rant/I don't know what.
--Joe