I am writing some short stories, hoping to create an anthology. But when i looked back over them I was shocked to realise they all have rather depressing endings. If i think back to the stories I wrote in high school, they are all rather tragic. Almost all of my poetry has been described as angstsy, dark or depressing. I like my poems. They are all rather passionate, intense pieces about unreciprocated love, dysfunctional relationships and the less pretty side of emotions.
Gasp! Could I possibly be a dark writer?
put your shoes on
This is absolutely bizarre because I am SUCH a happy person. I am always bright and animated and am genuinely satisfied with life. Get my friends to describe me and they will use the words ‘weird’ ‘colourful’ ‘loud’ ‘exciting’. No one will say ‘sad’, ‘depressed’, ‘quiet’.
I am a pretty emotional person. If I’m not laughing, I’m crying. But who says crying is a bad thing? Crying is one of my top three favourite things in the world! I love a good cry.
Why are most people scared of ‘ugly’ emotions? They see crying and think – ‘this person has been though horrible trauma and sadness’. Well, duh, we all have. I see crying and think it is beautiful, because that person is recognising their emotions; they are getting it OUT and going through a process of healing.
It’s the same with my creative writing. A lot of people feel uncomfortable with the stuff I write. The greatest and probably the only real criticism I have received for my poetry is that it is ‘not happy‘. But I think that’s an emotionally immature view. I have never felt depressed or saddened by any of my poems, and if it wasn’t for people telling me how horrible they are, I probably wouldn’t even realise.
my heart is made of..
I think they are beautiful, because yes, life is not perfect, and sometimes we love people who don’t care about us, sometimes people fail us, they fall short of our expectations, we fall short of our own expectations. And ou just have to give it a voice and admit that it happened.
Because that is life.
And life is beautiful.
It’s not pretty.
But it is beautiful.
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You know a lot of Comedians actually have very dark and depressing lives. So you are practically the opposite of them, and I think you get the sweet end of the deal!
Maybe because you get all your dark stuff out in your poetry and writings, it allows you to be so brilliantly happy in real life?
the stuff you’re posting on here just keeps getting wiser. love it.
and my writing has always explored the darker side of life. if i try to write something happy and lighthearted, i end up hating it because it doesn’t feel real to me.
Hi Rhys
Takin’ time out from writing, to say hello.
Had big days working in the ‘real’ world the last couple of weeks. Fortunately the muse has not left and I’m still churning out some stuff. Some good, some not so good and some that is a springboard for other stuff. I like the springboards, its like taking a leap of faith to jump from a crap ‘pome’ to something more workable, and somewhere along the way you find what you wanted to say in the first place.
Great to catch up at the festival, hope to catch you again soon.
When I get something worth looking at on my wordpress site, I’ll let you know
cheeeeers marilyn
I am very happy but enjoy a good cry too! When I was in year 6 I wrote a story about the drought and a girl who loved her dog. When the storm finally came and the land was nourished or whatever, the dog got struck by lightning and died.
My teacher wrote to my parents and my sister hated me for a week because it was too sad. Wtf?
Bring it, I say.