>>7630867I have a lot of past bullshit to draw from, so anything in my stories is based on REAL EVENTS!!, so it stays grounded in my own mind even if someone else reads it and doesn't really get pulled in. We can only do our best to make things relatable to the reader.
As far as writing about things we haven't directly experienced, I was reflecting on my uncle dying from cancer when I wrote Guitar Gently Weeps (among other things), and how he had been so happy and full of life, but in his last days in the hospital I came in to find a frail old man who was simply going through the motions knowing this was the end of it all. That was the image in my mind, of him sitting in the hospital bed, while remembering the good times we had before as well as the pain and fear he shared with me as his condition worsened. It's not a 1:1 of what happened in the story, and I had to look up alot of the specifics while writing it, but they're similar tales in a nutshell, the wasting away of a person you care for and what you and they feel.
Use what you have in your life. Losing a pet, the divorce of your parents, a friend's betrayal when they stole your gameboy. Reach back for the emotions you felt then and use that to fuel your words. Worrying over the reader's interpretation does nothing for the process of writing.
>>7632212God you sound like an emo when you write out things the way you did. It's pretty cringe bro.
Cool stories though.
