19d • General discussion
The Heavy Stuff
Some stories don’t just take time—
they take pieces of you.
Writing trauma, grief, rage, survival… it can feel like reopening a wound just to make something beautiful out of it.
So I’m curious:
How do you write emotionally heavy material without burning out?
Do you…
write in short bursts and step away?
“buffer” heavy scenes with lighter ones?
keep boundaries between your life and your work?
debrief after writing (music, movement, journaling)?
write it anyway and deal with the emotional aftermath later?
If you’ve learned anything through experience—drop it below.
Your process might be the exact thing another writer here needs right now.
(And if you don’t have a process yet? That’s okay too. This is how we find one.)
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