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As a creative writer, you must feel the mood you are writing about. As a creative writer, you must feel what you are writing if you want to reach your audience. And how are you supposed to do that? You can do it by experiencing the mood.
Let’s suppose you want to write a scene that displays anger. Maybe the story is about abuse, a mom and dad arguing, or sibling rivalry. Maybe it's about a boyfriend breaking up with his girl because she was in bed with his brother. To write a scene like that, you have to be in the right mood. I mean get seriously furious.
Remember the thing that hurt you most in your life? Remember when you woke up mad at your mate because you had a bad dream about him/her? What about when you got into a heated argument with your boyfriend over women's rights, or abortion.? As a writer, your job is to harvest those emotions and spit them back out wherever you need them. You have to make is so real that you'll need anger management classes for two months.
Are you writing a happy scene? Start thinking about something that made you very happy. Sing really crazy! Laugh like an idiot! And when you begin laughing at yourself, it’s time to write that joy into your scene.
Another way to develop the emotions is to write diary or blog entries from your character's point of view. You must live your character's life. Do whatever it takes to crawl into your character’s skin. You can’t write effectively what you don’t know or aren’t in the mood for. (But you can write notes to fill the space and come back to it later when you're more in the mood.)
Remember that your protagonist (main character, hero) and antagonist (villain) must be three-dimensional characters. They must have problems to work through, a history, a future, and dreams that they chase. Those characters should be real enough to walk off the page in your reader’s mind and sit next to them. If the reader can’t identify with the characters, they aren’t likely to stay with the story.
That makes me think of my daughter, when she was 16. It was not uncommon for her to sit on the floor Indian style, and bawl her eyes out over a drama TV show. Then one night I gave my sweetie a wink and said, "She's a great acress, isn't she?"Hubby picked up on what I was doing and we bantered about what part the actress would play next.
Our daughter turned around, with eyes flooding tears, and said, "Mom, quit it. You're ruining it for me!” But what she really meant was, “I’m into the character. I feel what the character is feeling. Don’t move me out of the scene.”
If your characters aren’t three-dimensional, you’ll lose your readers. Put yourself into the mood and into the groove. Experience what you are writing about.
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How I Used The Fresh Papaya (PawPaw):
The fruit was to be consumed ‘As is’ because we always have a small plate of fruit everyday around 5 pm.
I planned on adding a teaspoon of seeds into my Yogurt at lunchtime.
The ‘Coleslaw’ I would add to any Salad (even in a sandwich) as it’s summertime in Oz and we are eating a lot of Salads. Don’t know what I am going to do in the Winter though? If you have any ideas please add them as a comment so everyone can benefit.
I had also planned on five serves per day because I thought it would be better to ‘Drip Feed’ it into me, as my wife thinks I am a ‘Drip’ sometimes anyway – so that should fit.
Now… Continue reading Prostate Cancer Diary - My Papaya Recipe
Monday 6th Feb 2012: My Prostate Cancer Diary.
So here is the problem. I have dismissed Surgery completly and that leads me to Radio Therapy as the only available conventional medical alternative.
My Oncologist want me to have Hormone Treatment to:
- a: Slow the Growth of the Cancer cells by (basically) chemically castrating me. Ouch!
- b: Shrink the Prostate down to a smaller target for his magic Death Ray.
I didn’t want to do that with Hormone treatment, but can appreciate why he wants to do that.
So I’m looking into all types of Natural and Alternative medications.
The best I have come up with is PawPaw (Papaya) as there have been quite a few studies with very promising reasults, PLUS it has been… Continue reading Prostate Cancer Diary - My Natural Alternative
Prostate Treatments and Me.
Long time coming since my last post – but I have been kinda busy…. Tests – tests and more tests 
So this is the latest:
My Urologist sent me to the Radio Oncologist because I decided I do NOT want surgery. Apparently I can’t have Brachyatherapy (my original choice) because my Gleason Score is 8 – too high, so External Beam Therapy is the only option, even though they only found cancer cells in ONE of the TEN Biopsies they took.
HOWEVER: (I am discovering LOTS of ‘Howevers’), the Oncologist wants me to have Hormone Treatment first to bring my enlarged prostate down in size.
An ‘Average’ prostate is about 40mm – about the size of a small Plum -… Continue reading My Personal Prostate Cancer Treatment Options