Thank you, @mariannewest. I'm glad you enjoyed this story. After writing this one, I felt all kinds of emotions when I read it back. I suppose in a way my subconscious is processing loss through my writing. I've lost two relatives and a close friend in the last 4 years. It's not all doom and gloom though ;-) a big part of this story was inspired simply by my love of the ocean + green turtles in particular. I feel like I would love to be Ande, well the Ande who was transformed into a turtle by the spirit of the sea that is :-) thanks for your visit and comment
I am sorry for your losses. And isn't it interesting how we work through emotions through writing we weren't even aware of in our conscious mind? I do hope you will publish this for a wider audience as well.
Ohhhh, how real life works, transformed in the guise of fiction -
that sorrow, that loss, rewritten as something beautiful - I've lost two relatives and a close friend in the last 4 years. It's not all doom and gloom though ;- - This is how suffering is done
Thanks for your fantastic comment @carolkean. You're right in what you say, it's the job of an artist, in whatever medium, to take their pain/suffering and effect a metamorphosis. Little bit of a Kafka reference going on there ;-) honestly, if I didn't have my writing to express the workings of subconscious I don't know what I'd do. Some people can talk these things out, I find that very difficult, but now and then I write something and afterwards see direct meaning in the story to certain things that have been happening in my life. It's really a joy when it happens, in uni I was always told writing shouldn't be therapy + this is true for the most part. I think the lecturers were saying that to try and discourage too much self indulgent clap-trap. But sometimes it just happens naturally, and in those instances I think it's ok to allow the subconscious to flex those muscles.
Thank you, @mariannewest. I'm glad you enjoyed this story. After writing this one, I felt all kinds of emotions when I read it back. I suppose in a way my subconscious is processing loss through my writing. I've lost two relatives and a close friend in the last 4 years. It's not all doom and gloom though ;-) a big part of this story was inspired simply by my love of the ocean + green turtles in particular. I feel like I would love to be Ande, well the Ande who was transformed into a turtle by the spirit of the sea that is :-) thanks for your visit and comment
I am sorry for your losses. And isn't it interesting how we work through emotions through writing we weren't even aware of in our conscious mind? I do hope you will publish this for a wider audience as well.
Ohhhh, how real life works, transformed in the guise of fiction -
that sorrow, that loss, rewritten as something beautiful -
I've lost two relatives and a close friend in the last 4 years. It's not all doom and gloom though ;- - This is how suffering is done
Thanks for your fantastic comment @carolkean. You're right in what you say, it's the job of an artist, in whatever medium, to take their pain/suffering and effect a metamorphosis. Little bit of a Kafka reference going on there ;-) honestly, if I didn't have my writing to express the workings of subconscious I don't know what I'd do. Some people can talk these things out, I find that very difficult, but now and then I write something and afterwards see direct meaning in the story to certain things that have been happening in my life. It's really a joy when it happens, in uni I was always told writing shouldn't be therapy + this is true for the most part. I think the lecturers were saying that to try and discourage too much self indulgent clap-trap. But sometimes it just happens naturally, and in those instances I think it's ok to allow the subconscious to flex those muscles.