Should You Write When You Are In Pain?
"You may not write well every day, but you can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page."
-Jodi Picoult
If you can offer a piece of wisdom when you are in physical or mental pain, then you are a type of person who could eventually tolerate deep pain in your dark times. A wise man once said that you may not write well every day, but you can always edit a bad page, and you cannot edit a blank page.
Should you write when you are in pain?
Pain could either activate or deactivate us and it is a part of human experience that is very inevitable in a real life setting. Even if you are a master of your own game, you tend to experience feelings of physical or mental pain as you go along the way. But, should you write when you are in pain?
"Write hard and clear about what hurts."
-Ernest Hemingway
Every writer could always understand the power of deep pain.
Oftentimes, most of the creative pieces of writing comes from a story of deep pain and life sufferings. The power of pain could even move mountains yet the saddest part is changing a person into somebody you do not wish to become in certain instances.
According to Ernest Hemingway, write hard and clear about what hurts. Putting extra doses of pain on a page could add more emotions and feelings to what you are writing, yet when something takes you out of yourself, it may lead you to another story. Professional writers know that through pain, words become melancholic seem to be creative through an imagination crossing beyond the horizon.
When I am in a deep pain, I could hardly get up in bed but I do have great feelings to write from the heart as I strongly convey my extreme emotions from within. Based on my personal experience, I could strongly express every word and I feel like I want to make words alive from sorrow and despair.
Nevertheless, others are more comfortable writing when they have feelings of excitement and happiness. Some may also feel good when they are in the mood and have an inspiration for writing. But regardless of the experience, the reality would always differ for each individuals as everybody is unique. There is no criteria on how to start writing but we could always set goals so we could be a better writer on our own. We are uniquely different yet what is only common is the existence of emotions.
Writing when we are in pain would always depend on our preference. But if we wish to write every day despite our feelings and emotions, it is not every day that we are writing well for whether we like it or not there would be blocks in writing. However, we can do all our best to edit a bad page as how we make things better for ourselves. After all, we could not edit a blank page for we could only edit a draft. We are writers and we could write whatever we want as we share an untold story from within.
In conclusion, each one of us is uniquely different and what is common is our ability to express emotions. What may be working for you may not be totally working for me, and what may be good to a few may not be very good to many. The idea of writing when you are in a deep pain varies from person to person. What is essential is the ability to sublimate pain in writing through the dark times of life without harming yourself as you understand a great power of writing in pain. You can always write but you may not write well every day when something takes you out of yourself. The key is to just write and share an untold story from within.
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Just want to say thank you for this sharing, we all suffer in different ways but all we can do is to get back and continue living, a have a nice day!