I thought about
writing a short off-topic follow-up about analysing what went on to
the work of creating the short-story - “Bittersweet Love”; how I
approached and polished it.
Without further ado.
The story came out initially only as a frustration of how much I worried
about that I couldn't write up dialogue between two characters. The first
iteration was only the dialogues itself, without anything else to
support it. Turns out I was not as hopeless as I had imagined.
A hour later, after
making the first sketch. I decided to push the first sketch a little
bit further away. Letting my imagination to fill in the blanks and
describe the setting more.
I did not want to
take 'his' or 'her' side inside the story. So I ended up going with the third person, although 'she' clearly strikes out as the
protagonist for the story. It is 'her' viewpoint that is the stable
and permanent inside the story, not 'his'.
While working with the second sketch, I disliked the idea
about describing the surroundings to a great detail. So my only goal
was to assist the reader in immersing to the emotions between the
two. I had not used premeditated oxymorons before. But the following
paragraph was an attempt to see how far I could take it, when
describing emotions:
They sat down on the
chairs, holding hands. The two pairs of eyes connected with each
other. Telling a tale of longing. Of an anguish. A hot frozen
heart, melted in an instant; emotions lost in past, blazing into a
life anew.
~~~
My goal there was to
describe that moment when two people, that had once felt love towards
each other were having a reunion and their hearts still remembered.
The challenge was to describe that abstract feeling with words. It is
something that can't be described with pictures, only with words.
That was one of the parts of the short story that I did not imagine
happen inside my head; I felt it.
I'll probably
revision this story in the future. However I won't change the second
sketch. I really want to keep it as a testament: “Look, this is how
much mistakes I made back then. You too have what it takes!”
Truthfully, it took me months of hard work to reach here and I still
feel very insecure.
It is possible that
I will write a follow-up about other stories to come. Especially, if
this helps me to improve as a writer.
~ Thanks for reading
or skipping my ranting about this subject! I am not a native speaker, so some of the silly things can never come off as natural for me. ~
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