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⌈ Secret Post #2818 ⌋

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Personal issues/experiences that show up in your work

[jaybie_jarrett]

Does anyone else have familiar themes in your work based on life experiences you've had or that you are passionate about?

I've noticed that my works have themes of issues with parents /abusive home situations as well a recurring theme about bullying doing serious damage to the victims' psyche, mainly because of friends' home experiences as well as my own expreinces being bullied (as well as friends' experiences.

And they're never the over the top "ALL BULLIES ARE SOCIOPATHS WITH NO REMORSE" types that I see in some novels, because honestly I think that's stupid and harmful (because then it's easy for someone to go, "of course I'm not a bully, I'm not a complete monster like that") but more just like "you don't realize what your "fun" and "jokes" can do to people".

What about you guys? Any themes that are important to you?

Re: Personal issues/experiences that show up in your work

[(Anonymous)]

I have so many issues with my mum that I would much rather write an absent one than abusive or loving ones. So mums in my stories are often dead or just not there as a strong element.

Dads are more present, though I have a bunch of issues regarding my own dad as well (though totally different from the ones regarding my mum), but as a whole parents are not big elements in my stories.

It's honestly a bit weird as I have never been really abused by either of my parents, but there's just a whole lot of underlying emotional issues there for me stemming back to when they got divorced.

Re: Personal issues/experiences that show up in your work

[jaybie_jarrett]

Ahh that's understandable. You don't always have to experience something exactly to write about it and have it show up a lot.. I wouldn't say my parents are abusive (smothering and overprotective yes , abusive? never) but I write a lot of abuse scenarios.

*shrug*

Re: Personal issues/experiences that show up in your work

[lunabee34]

Not so much themes as sense of place. I tend to set things I've written in places I've been before, even fandom stuff.

I do tend to live to write from outsider POV, about characters on the periphery, about mothers, and about soul crushing sadness. LOL

Re: Personal issues/experiences that show up in your work

[jaybie_jarrett]

Hmm interesting. (also that's weird because I tend to set mine in places I'd LIKE to live.)

Hmmm those sound like interesting themes. I'd read that.

Re: Personal issues/experiences that show up in your work

[lunabee34]

I think it's the Southerner in me; sense of place is so important in Southern literature, and it's what makes something feel real and vital to me as a reader.

:)

Re: Personal issues/experiences that show up in your work

[jaybie_jarrett]

Ah

Makes sense.

Re: Personal issues/experiences that show up in your work

[jaybie_jarrett]

Ohh interesting. and that's cool.

I can sorta write addiction a bit because I have a bit of a sugar/caffeine addiction (and possibly addiction like eating patters) myself.

Re: Personal issues/experiences that show up in your work

[quirkytizzy]

Writers write what they know. If they know the right things (whatever those might be) then your themes will be powerful.

Yours are.

Re: Personal issues/experiences that show up in your work

[jaybie_jarrett]

Thank you ^^.