Doing what I want to do and what I really do, is often very different. It is easy to shut it down. Sleep. Veg in front of the tv. Listen to Soundgarden’s “Black Hole Sun” or “Fell on Black Days” and sink into the darkness. Let dark hours become dark days that wash away cares and goals and opportunities.
Or I can call my black ninjas. Scrape together every ounce of creative energy, lift my mighty pen and write an unexpected exit out of the vortex. I can spew death and destruction on the forces standing in the way of my character’s arc and help him battle to the story’s climax.
Do the stories you write impact your mood?
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Keep on writing.
Jo Hawk The Writer
Jo Hawk 
They do. If I write something funny, I laugh and smile. Even if nobody else got it.
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Oh, I commend you. Writing funny is difficult. And I am sure you make others smile and laugh as well. 😊
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Thanks. I try.
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I usually try not to put too much of my emotions in writing. The only stories or poems that have an impact on me are the ones that are written from my personal life. I think all writers go through that.
My goal everyday is to read something positive or to try to see something positive around me. Depths of despair or depression are easy to fall into but difficult to get out of.
Isadora 😎
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Keeping life positive is definitely a good game plan. However, many of my characters are flawed and as a result the step into a lot of problems. They are like children sometimes 😉
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