Delve into Dread

How does one make sense of an experience that makes no sense?  The way to delve into them begins with writing to dump frustrations onto the page. Writing with all the senses alert to that experience will bring out solutions and satisfactions.

Use dialogue to figure out what happened between two people, or three in a confrontation.

Try a dash of humor to defuse the dread.

Ask five questions. Then question the questions.

Delve into that dread and write into delight!

Creative Write:

Explain a situation from the past. Feel the immediacy and write in present tense. Let the words flow. Try not to add judgments or results.

Just write and engage what it felt like, sounded like, even tasted like. What did it do to your body awareness (internal and muscular responses)?  Add as much as you can from a visual perspective into the details. Include colors.

Is it about the situation or a transference of emotion?

What does it mean to you as you distance from it?  If you wrote it in past tense, what changes?

What did you learn from it?  Have you encountered a similar situation and made different choices?

If the situation lingers and haunst in dreams, write a dream sequence.

Find ways to turn it into a poem or story.