In life I think we all wish we could lead a drama-free life. It sometimes feels like my family, not my immediate, there always seems to be some kind of drama. From my sister to whatever made up story she’s told recently to something with my brother to something with one of Keith’s brothers. And I’m sure I’m not the only one who has family members who automatically bring with them drama.
But when we sit down to write, and we’re in our own world in our own little bubble and the only drama we have to encounter is the drama we create in our heads that we add to our story. I think every writer will agree with me, we all live for that kind of drama.
Conflict. We all hate having conflict in our lives. Someone dying. Someone going through a divorce. Someone who has a difficult time in school. Or any number of possible conflicts. As a writer we thrive on the conflict we inflict on our characters because we thrive on fixing said conflict for our main characters. But in real life we want none of it. š
Ha! Drama and conflict are the meat and potatoes of writing. Bring them on! š
LOL, Zan Marie, you are so right and we as writers love our drama drama drama. š
I’m not one to inflict drama into my characters. I’m having to learn tough love and bring the drama down upon their heads. Nice piece!
Jean, I can understand that. As new writers, I have a feeling its one of those things that many of us have to learn how to do like those other fiction techniques like tightening our writing, keeping our tenses straight, no head hopping and all those other important things to writing a good, solid fiction novel.