A Family Drama

It seems like the past couple of weeks have been full of drama, in all sides of my family. I won’t go into details, but there’s been a lot going on in my little family, and I have to say, I think we’re all handling it pretty well. Every family goes through their own troubles at some point, and right now, we’re having our fair share of them.

Do you know what this makes me want to do? It makes me want to write.

There’s plenty of good, classic family dramas out there- take The Glass Menagerie. There’s also even more modern examples, movies and such. It’s a common genre, really, but that’s because there is an audience for it. It’s such a relatable topic, and it’s one that sounds like tons of fun to write.

Yes, in case you were wondering, this is how I deal with the things that go on in my life. I turn them into words. Ever since I was young, I’ve written in various forms, going through phases with writing journals, novels, and poetry. It’s just so therapeutic for me- it helps me to view the events in my life in a more objective way, and it helps me stop looking at what I perceive as “unfairness,” and look more at the big picture. Even now, here I am, still writing novels and poems, and blogging. This is how I cope with my struggles, and how I sort things out, and so, this is what I do. Writing clears my head.

So here I am, writing after a botched attempt at a nap, still working on this blog that I figured I would have dropped by now.  Well, I guess it’s a good thing that I haven’t dropped it- it’s turning out to be quite beneficial for me, whether anyone actually reads it or not.

Back to the topic of family dramas, I’ve had this little idea rolling around in my head for a while now. This is not necessarily something that I would want to write in novel format, but there is a NaNoWriMo-esque thing in April called “Script Frenzy” where you have to write 100 pages of scripted material in a month, and whenever I think about this idea that I’ve had, it seems to lend itself more to a movie, or perhaps a play...more on the idea itself later. I’ve got to go write down the details before I forget them!

Love, Jess