My experience in writing short stories is like love- hated relationship. I enjoy reading stories because it inspires me to write one or feel I’m living the story. But while writing these Short stories, it was complex, confused, complicated, sad, dark, honest -life, and thrilled. While writing, I try to connect my life experience with characters or with themes. For short story 1, I wrote a sad devastating tale with a happy ending; however, there is a message behind it: never to trust or be a victim, or not have a voice. Short story 2 is realistic. I think I’m more connected to short story two because I experienced and still, I am today, yet it conveys people around me like family, friends, or lovers it could be in any way.
I have struggled with writing stories or just writing anything because I’m consistently all over the place or I’m stuck, or I didn’t write what I felt but what my brain told me to write.