I empathize with you for the time you invested in this relationship. I been there. But what an opportunity you have to write a fiction novel based your true story.
Story Goal: To let go and move forward in life Internal Goal: To replace the recurring hurt, which memories won’t let go of.
Opening line: He broke me and the pieces of my life are shattered and scattered.
Has a nice hook. Who broke you? How did he break you? What happened? Wow! Your life is shattered and scattered. I want to know. Just how bad is it?
You answer these questions over the course of the novel. If you answer too soon then you spoil the reader and the reader loses interest in your story.
So if your goal is let go and move forward then you have to figure out what is going to stop you from moving forward. Because a story without conflict is no story. And you might be thinking to write a story with flashbacks going from past to present and back and forth describing entire scenes and events with description, but really you are in the present and the problem is in the present. So the past should not be the focus. At the same time doesn’t mean the past should be forgotten. The past may present itself as your internalization with the events taking place in the present. And by using internalization you slowly build back story of moments of the past without info-dumping the reader.
So you may meet a new person in your life that will satisfy the internal goal, but before you are awarded this goal you have to grow first. You have to endure and resolve the conflict. In the end you when you finally realize after all the conflict you met and have true love, not the day by day guy, you move forward and accomplish your goal.
Story Goal: To let go and move forward in life
Internal Goal: To replace the recurring hurt, which memories won’t let go of.
Opening line: He broke me and the pieces of my life are shattered and scattered.
Has a nice hook. Who broke you? How did he break you? What happened? Wow! Your life is shattered and scattered. I want to know. Just how bad is it?
You answer these questions over the course of the novel. If you answer too soon then you spoil the reader and the reader loses interest in your story.
So if your goal is let go and move forward then you have to figure out what is going to stop you from moving forward. Because a story without conflict is no story. And you might be thinking to write a story with flashbacks going from past to present and back and forth describing entire scenes and events with description, but really you are in the present and the problem is in the present. So the past should not be the focus. At the same time doesn’t mean the past should be forgotten. The past may present itself as your internalization with the events taking place in the present. And by using internalization you slowly build back story of moments of the past without info-dumping the reader.
So you may meet a new person in your life that will satisfy the internal goal, but before you are awarded this goal you have to grow first. You have to endure and resolve the conflict. In the end you when you finally realize after all the conflict you met and have true love, not the day by day guy, you move forward and accomplish your goal.