Some stories are emotional to write. Or maybe more emotional than others? You’d rather hope every story had some kind of emotion…
What I mean is some stories take more out of you when you’re throwing them down on the page. I just finished the first draft of a short story and that, let me tell you, was one of them. Started it’s short story life feeling dark and quirky, but by the time I got to the ending I was hurting for the main character. For all the characters, actually. And as endings go it wasn’t all that bad. Not for me, anyway.
The ending was also written almost exclusively to Porcupine Tree‘s ‘Collapse the Light into Earth’ from In Absentia. Anyone familiar with that song (if you’re not, I gotta say, seek ye their albums and purchase!) will know where the whole thing was coming from.
Now, I need a glass of wine.
