Comments on: Dare to Be Vulnerable in Your Writing https://writersinthestormblog.com/2019/05/dare-to-be-vulnerable-in-your-writing-life/ A Blog On Writing Sun, 12 Jan 2025 04:51:30 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 By: carmenlehtimaki https://writersinthestormblog.com/2019/05/dare-to-be-vulnerable-in-your-writing-life/#comment-141247 Tue, 04 Jun 2019 03:59:36 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=37235#comment-141247 I've always found it to be easiest to be vulnerable or the least bit expressive through writing versus anything else. I feel like when you truly bleed on the page the reader feels it.

]]> By: mcclellanelias https://writersinthestormblog.com/2019/05/dare-to-be-vulnerable-in-your-writing-life/#comment-141099 Thu, 30 May 2019 00:45:55 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=37235#comment-141099 "No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader," Robert Frost. Good stuff, thanks for sharing.

]]> By: Top Picks Thursday! For Writers & Readers 05-23-2019 | The Author Chronicles https://writersinthestormblog.com/2019/05/dare-to-be-vulnerable-in-your-writing-life/#comment-141016 Thu, 23 May 2019 17:01:36 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=37235#comment-141016 […] Drake advises us to dare to be vulnerable in our writing, Jim Dempsey helps us to tune out our self-doubt, Jessica Frances Kane faces the problem of too […]

]]> By: littlemissw https://writersinthestormblog.com/2019/05/dare-to-be-vulnerable-in-your-writing-life/#comment-141003 Wed, 22 May 2019 23:51:32 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=37235#comment-141003 In reply to LauraDrake.

Absolutely. He was perfect for her. I felt like she deserved someone to help her shoulder the load.

]]> By: jayjhicks https://writersinthestormblog.com/2019/05/dare-to-be-vulnerable-in-your-writing-life/#comment-140983 Tue, 21 May 2019 05:14:26 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=37235#comment-140983 Hi Laura and WITS lovers, I had my first publishing success in a comp with a piece on Grief, it was personal and cutting and raw. Yes I have elements of raw characters, but it’s different knowing where that heads into the zone of light relief.
This morning, before I got back into editing my work, I read a few chapters of a most vulnerable character, Kya, in Where the Crawdads Sing. After closing that (reluctantly) and opening my own pages I was so in Kya’s headspace, my creative brain just went to work. There is nothing like creative preparation. I can’t recommend it enough.

]]> By: Laura Drake https://writersinthestormblog.com/2019/05/dare-to-be-vulnerable-in-your-writing-life/#comment-140962 Mon, 20 May 2019 09:40:14 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=37235#comment-140962 In reply to lorihenriksen.

Love that, Lori, and you got to the heart of it. I've ascribe to the belief that the worst thing that could happen to me would be, sitting on my porch when I'm old, regretting the things I didn't try. Having an untold story in me because I didn't have the courage to put it on the page, is another.

I'm more afraid of that, than being vulnerable. Thanks for the wisdom.

]]> By: dholcomb1 https://writersinthestormblog.com/2019/05/dare-to-be-vulnerable-in-your-writing-life/#comment-140960 Mon, 20 May 2019 03:42:23 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=37235#comment-140960 In reply to LauraDrake.

I've been published. That book is so raw and long. 170k. I don't think it's meant to be published, but it's what proved to me I can write. I appreciate the kind words.

denise

]]> By: R.A. Ries https://writersinthestormblog.com/2019/05/dare-to-be-vulnerable-in-your-writing-life/#comment-140959 Sun, 19 May 2019 22:01:41 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=37235#comment-140959 In reply to Dare to Be Vulnerable in Your Writing - Writing Advice - - The Passive Voice.

Thanks for sharing. I too subscribe to the philosophy that I must reveal my soul and only write my truth.

]]> By: lorihenriksen https://writersinthestormblog.com/2019/05/dare-to-be-vulnerable-in-your-writing-life/#comment-140957 Sun, 19 May 2019 16:08:06 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=37235#comment-140957 Apologies if this is a duplicate, but my first try did not seem to post.
One of my favorite quotes is from Maya Angelou, "There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you." This on my wall next to my writing desk helps me get the stories out and on the page. Some will never be seen by anyone else, but they will be written and not roiling around in my vulnerable self. We are all vulnerable in some way, and writing is healing.

]]> By: LauraDrake https://writersinthestormblog.com/2019/05/dare-to-be-vulnerable-in-your-writing-life/#comment-140956 Sun, 19 May 2019 09:04:00 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=37235#comment-140956 In reply to littlemissw.

Aw, thank you, littlemissw! No sequel, though I always felt Harlie and Deuce ended up together, didn't you?

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