Recognizing (979 hits)
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Submitted by Brandon Fabish <brandino_the_great.at.yahoo.com> (View user info) at 2003-07-01 01:01:28 EDT
The view of everything now, it's starting to get blurry. Think of the way things would look if you wore contacts or glasses and didn't have them in and you were on LSD. That is sort of the way he's picturing things right now. The key used to be not to think of your past. Not to think of all of the things that bothered you, but sometimes, you just can't help it. Sometimes, no matter how strong your willpower is, sometimes, you've just got to think.
Dwelling on a situation doesn't make it better, but venting does. When people vent, it can be done so many ways. Some people, the ones that do it wrong, are the ones that go around venting everyday. They tell everyone their problems and complain about everything. They say how everything is wrong and they yell at people. These sort of people are almost always uptight.
Another way to vent is to scream. He used to do that. He couldn't go around day to day hassling everyone with his problems, because it didn't make him feel any better. Besides, no one needed to know his problems. But he used to drive for hours in one direction, until civilization seemed eons away, and he'd scream. He would take five deep breaths, in and out. This is what helped the pressure come on the edge for him. Where it was he could either release it, or shove it down to come out even worse. So he'd scream. It was normally only one big, loud, obnoxious scream. The kind where so much air is coming out sound is barely audible, and it tears the lining in your throat.
Sometimes people vent by abuse. If things get bad they will beat someone, something. Alcoholics will do the former, only because they are usually in a state of delirium. It isn't that they hate that person, it just that they are uncontrollable and can't take hold of themselves during that situation. The ones that beat objects, those are the majority of venting populous. They will grab something strong and sturdy, go somewhere, a garage maybe, and just start beating tenaciously at another object, just as strong and sturdy. They will do this for minutes, sometimes five, ten, maybe even fifteen. It works.
At last the final group of venters, these are the kind that need to release it emotionally. On paper is the best way for them to do so. They will write down their thoughts and usually do it in such a creative and poetic manner, one would think they were an actual author. These people are sometimes the ones that need to vent the most, because if they did it any other way, they'd be alone, they'd be mute, in prison, or there house would be beaten to the ground.
What this all means is that he used to be able to vent. He used to be able to go from one way to the next, releasing his anger. But when he stepped back to look at the big picture, he didn't see a problem solved. He recognized it was all a stress build-up, but he didn't know how to fix it. He knew what some of the factors of this stress was, but he couldn't cure it. Not by smoking, not by drinking, not by having sex. He just couldn't get these things off his mind. They were nagging him nonstop. So he continued to think about his problems...
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Submitted by I_Have_a_Kristen_Fetish (user info) at 2004-03-18 16:23:10 EST (#)
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Submitted by Murphy1844 (user info) at 2003-08-04 19:10:01 EDT (#)
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I didn't notice the ratings as I usually don't rate unless it fucks things up. Here ya go.
Submitted by Murphy1844 (user info) at 2003-08-04 19:09:25 EDT (#)
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Brandon: You've got the necessary resources to write some good shit. I like the ideas you presented here. I do not, however, like your style. It's been said before and I'll say it again. As a reader, it sounds like you're writing about yourself under the rather obvious mask of 'he' or 'him.'
For what it's worth, I'd like to offer some advise. As a quasi-writer myself and, more importatnly, as an avid reader, I've asked myself a question: How can I make characters that do not sound like myself. This is what I did:
Everything you write comes from YOU, right? Duh. That is why it can be challenging to create a completely different character than yourself as passable. Take a characterisic of yourself and BLOW IT UP. For example, I have thoughts that are out of character from my ego all the time. My inner dialogue: "Can soap get dirty?" Take a stupid question like that and breath it in to an over the top character that does nothing but ask stupid questions.
That's a truncated version but hopefully you see my point. I read A LOT. I can say, with some of these ideas you've presented, you've got talent.
Murphy
Submitted by Phinch (user info) at 2003-08-04 18:34:24 EDT (#)
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Submitted by dasteve (user info) at 2003-07-04 12:08:46 EDT (#)
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Submitted by HeavensWalls (user info) at 2003-07-01 12:26:02 EDT (#)
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