By no means should you ever go to your past and pick out a negative memory, unless it will be used in a positive way. Your past shouldn't haunt you, it should rather push you to do even better-- and motivate you to do more.
As writers generally.. we need to be brave.. we need to be courageous-- because we may be compelled to write something so dark and grim, but in the end it may liberate someone else; and that is the purpose to why we write.. we say the unsaid!
I learned from one of my tutors at my university that there are sometimes you have to dig deep and go to the places that you don't really want to go.. those dark places that we have suppressed and pushed to the back of our minds.
That is where the truth is, and that is what we write.
So my dear writer. Try this.
Take a moment and dig deep to that memory, or that time that was dark in your life-- it can be uncomfortable.. and it can be scary.. trust me, but what you will get out of it will be nothing more than a masterpiece.
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