Tuesday, April 22, 2014

S is for Sadness

S is for sadness. Some times for reasons we just can’t identify a strange melancholic feeling creeps up on us and catches us in its grip. Many things make me sad.

When a trilogy I have enjoyed reading ends I feel sad that I won't be meeting the characters again. Tragic endings make me sad. Manuscripts that don’t find a publishing house make me feel sad. All my hard work and no takers. When I see good books losing out to not so good books written by the bigger writers, I feel sad.

 When I read harsh reviews for other writers' books I feel sad for the other writers. 
When characters I have started liking in books die, I feel sad. If my writing is going slow, I feel a little sad. 

I try to fight the sad feelings all the time. I must be coming across as a very sad person, right. Thankfully, these sad feelings are fleeting and I soon bounce back to my cheerful self.

Are you all accosted by sad feelings in your writing world? What makes you sad? How do you push the sad feelings away?

Note: this is my post for the A to Z Challenge. My theme is Emotions and Feelings writers experience.





26 comments:

  1. You wrote my feelings, madam. "When characters I have started liking in books die, I feel sad. If my writing is going slow, I feel a little sad."

    All the best for this challenge. Good luck. :-)

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  2. Sometimes I read something that makes me so reflective about all the issues raised. That can leave me with a sense of sadness. And sometimes, when I reflect on things that went wrong for people I love, that makes me sad, too. I don't get sad over characters meeting up with sad things, but sometimes the issues they make me think about leave me a little sad.

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  3. I can relate, Rachna. I just went through this. Hang in there. Sending you a virtual *HUG*, and hoping it'll be OK soon. Take care.

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  4. sadness is definitely part of my writing life. The best way to avoid it, I find, is to get lost in writing.


    mood
    Moody Writing

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  5. I can relate to this. Today a doc and her daughter were crushed by a speeding bus in Gurgaon. I did not know them but somehow I can't stop thinking about them and feeling sad. It was his daughters first day at school and the mom was watching from a distance. Sad. In fact, cruel.

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  6. When I'm researching a family for my family history, I'm often saddened by what I find in census records or other documents -- a mother might indicate she has 5 children living out of 10; another lost 3 children within weeks of each other (epidemic); a family's hard times can be seen in where they were living or in their income. When one of my ancestors became widowed, she sent her children to live with relatives and she took in laundry. I shake off the sadness by focusing on their strength to survive.
    Wendy at Jollett Etc.

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  7. My wife won't let me stay in a funk for long.

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  8. I have read books that made me weep - as I was reading and when I was done - they were that good. :)

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  9. Endings make me sad--especially when it means the end of a character. A death, the end of a short story or the end of a series...I hate seeing a good character go away, knowing I'll never read about them again. Makes me sad just thinking about it!!

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  10. If I get sad at the end of a series, I just re-read them over and over! But I understand what you mean when you see books that aren't well written but their authors have big-time names. It makes me cringe, then I get sad and think, I'm never going to make it in this writing career/world. Then I get over it and get happy and hopeful again:)

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  11. I'm sad when I buy a book I hope I will love and it doesn't do anything for me. I hate that:( You are normally an upbeat person and I'm glad you are!!

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  12. Sadness hits all of us when we lease expect it. I try to push those feelings aside and keep positive. Turn it around. If I can.

    For me leaving my house cheers me up. I have these feeling much more inside than outside. There are so many lovely distractions as I wonder through the city.

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  13. I can totally relate to this. Lately I've been struggling with melancholy feelings and it can be easy to get bogged down.

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  14. Hang on, remember, the other side of sadness is joy!

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  15. I try not to get sad about writing. Everything you do is a learning experience.

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  16. Cheese, of course. Eat more, share more, and the sun always comes out. ;)

    True Heroes from A to Z

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  17. Sadness is part of the human experience. There's nothing wrong with being sad, as long as it isn't consuming and you end up in a state of depression.

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  18. Hi friends, I hope I haven't made you extra worried about my sad feelings. Yes, lots of things make me sad. But they are temporary and I bounce back to my cheerful self soon enough.

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  19. I often feel sad but like you my sadness is fleeting and replaced with business or happiness or a mix of all three.
    Thank you so much for visiting me but it was my old blog. I hang out here now...
    www.doreenmcgettigan.com

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  20. I think sadness is a big part of a writer's life because we feel very deeply - for ourselves and for others.

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  21. I can relate! But I turn on the radio and am soon happy again. Or at least not so sad.

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  22. I can't say I get sad about books...unless it's the story itself making me feel that way. I did get sad when the author of Junie B. Jones died because those were such great books. I mourned the great books children will never be able to enjoy because she won't be around to create them.

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  23. There is a lot to feel sad about in these times, but even more to make us happy. I try to let the sad things go by quickly and hold on to the joyful moments.

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  26. I try to take notes when I'm sad, in case I ever have a character who needs to borrow the emotion.
    Deb@ http://debioneille.blogspot.com

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