Day 48

Heartbreak as inspiration

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It’s the one feeling we never want to feel, and yet we can experience it in various forms, many times during our lifetime.

Reading the average Mills and Book, there are always large doses of heartbreak, whether it is at the start when the girl expects that a particular dinner date is a proposal, but instead is the breakup, to the middle where misinterpretation of events with exes or rivals sends one or the other into a heartbreaking spiral.

it depends on the story you want to tell. You can have a spy story with an incidental affair that might lead to something more interesting, only to have one or the other caught in the crossfire. I remember one particular James Bond film where Mrs Bond was killed in a drive-by.

I must say the actress playing her was my favourite at the time, and I was very, very unhappy.

Undoubtedly, a break-up and the memories of that relationship could lead to writing a compelling narrative, and in fact, some of the more starker memories of my own have been translated into several stories and one book. So far.

Something else I realised, quite a number of autobiographies I have read have touched on the subject in many different ways, some benefitting from the experience, others finding it hard to get over, particularly when it is a first love. They are the most potent, and the most painful when it comes to an end.