What Hurts

  What hurts? Pain, emotionally and physically, is one obvious answer. But, what hurts me to write might not hurt another author or writer. As I have said before, I have had to live through leukemia and hospital stays and surgery. But to someone who has only read about it, researched it, it doesn't hurt nearly so hard.

  So, what is an author to do if they haven't been through a huge ordeal like I have? Well, to tell you the truth, I hope and pray most authors, or even people for that matter, haven't suffered as greatly as I have. I wish everyone could get through life without being scarred in some way.

  But the truth of the matter is: we have all been hurt in some way. Someone close to us has died. Parents divorced. Best friend moved away. Didn't get into the college of our dreams. Some may seem minor compared to others, but heart break is just that.

Heart break.

  You don't have to have had the exact kind of heart break to feel the heart break. Now I know I said above that it wouldn't hurt as bad, and that is still true. But it can still hurt if you remember just what broke your heart before. 

So go. Write hard and clear about what hurts.

Happy Monday :)