Does anyone write out of revenge?
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Re: Does anyone write out of revenge?
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My high school reunion is coming up, and if I go, I know I will see my old bullies. I will play it cool, though.
I will not "go postal" and try to beat them up (Lord knows I want to!) I will pretend to be nice and act calm, cool and collected. I doubt the old bullies will even remember me. Back to the post.
I want to write some short stories about my difficult high school years, and I debated with myself as to wither writing about my old bullies will keep me stuck in a place of anger and resentment.
I have a hard time letting things go, obviously. But what really sticks in my craw is that I've heard that my old bullies are now successful people, and I work a regular 9-5 job. I hate it when evil people win.
Hence, all the more need for fiction. Here's my question: If I write these "revenge" stories, will it keep me stuck in anger and resentment? Will it prevent me from moving on? And is it evil to write with bad intent in the first place? I know the standard advice is to "forgive and forget," but I'm not the "forgiving" type.
(No, I'm not a violent person. Just a passive-aggressive person.) Any advice on this subject is welcome.
Thank you all for reading this.
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While revenge is not necessarily the reason I write, I do find myself using people who have made fun of me or hurt me and turning them into characters. Sometimes those characters are bad people and sometimes bad things happen to those characters.Wanton_Wordsmith wrote:Here's another of my crazy questions: does use revenge as a reason to write? To get back at everyone who ever laughed at you? Does anyone ever write fictional antagonists based on bad people they knew in life? Based a bad character on a real jerk? Does anyone write fiction to get the angries out of their system? Or is that too passive/aggressive? I like to write horror fiction, and I used some bad experiences from my school days as material for my stories. How do other writers handle bad life experiences? What do other writers handle revenge wishes? Any comments are welcome.
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It's not that crazy of a question. I think that as writers, we all use pieces of our lives to fuel our writing. I do use my anger to get my writing better and to make my characters more believable, and if it happens that I have to take inspiration from someone in my life who's made me angry, then why not? I will do it definitely.
In all honesty, the most I have taken from my life was a story based on my current boyfriend and my ex-boyfriend. It was more for myself, so I could truly move on from my ex-boyfriend and focus on my current boyfriend. And while sometimes I find that it's difficult to write too much about your life, it's really helped me to move on with my life and create a story that I am rather proud of.
In the end, I think that anything that fuels your writing is good. Perhaps changing names might be a good idea, but then again, I think that sometimes it's good to keep some details exact. Just so, you know...they can recognize themselves...
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Creatively writing those feelings down may not have been a healthy expression. At the time, it was healthier than some alternatives, and I paired it with a lot of shadow work. I am still constantly reworking my internal mechanisms, and it is paying off. I can actually describe myself as happy overall. I'm almost to a semi-normal level of sanity, lol.
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As for the high school reunion, my opinion is to remember that the people who bullied in high school were kids. Stupid ones. They may have grown up in more than just physical ways. A lot of them will have stayed the same, but not all of them. Who cares what they think now? Your worth doesn't depend on them and it never did. Let it go, or sit down and actually tell one or two of them at the reunion what jerks they were in high school. They'll probably apologise or be very embarrassed.
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