Several people have asked me recently, what my favorite thing to write is.
And if I'm being honest, my favorite stories are tragedies. I don't know what that says about me, but it's true. If a book or a movie can make me cry, that's a pretty incredible feat! There are three movies that almost did it, and I finally broke down during THAT death in Harry Potter. Can you blame me?
Like F. Scott Fitzgerald said, "Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy."
I've found that if I don't write a dramatic death every once in a while, my imagination starts to dry up. The horror of finding a loved one already dead, the tear-jerker when the boy has to watch his girl die in his arms, a child dead before its time.... Now THAT hurts.
I think we can all identify a little bit when things go bad. Even if we haven't experienced that exact situation, (I haven't exactly rode a unicorn into battle yet, have you?) we can still feel a watered-down version of the panic when the protagonist sees his brother get stabbed. We become attached to the characters. Probably more than what is healthy. And when things go wrong.... We worry. We panic. We rage. And occasionally we cry. It's our nature to empathize, even when it isn't real.
How does one define a "good tragedy"? I have no idea. It's probably up for individual interpretation. There was probably a point to this post when I started it, but I can't seem to recall what that was, sooo.... Anyways, God bless, and happy writings!
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