Last week a few things happened that got me thinking about the extent to which I do (or don't) dig deep and put real emotion into my writing.
1) One of my writer friends, Elizabeth Gibson, tweeted me, lamenting that some of her writing seems emotionless when she reads it.
Although I've never had this exact thought about my own writing, I think I get it. (Actually, for the last year and half I've felt pretty excited when I write something light-hearted and fun that I can read aloud without crying. It's happening less and less.) It's a fine line to walk. I mean, maybe you don't want to cut your heart out and pass it around on a platter, but you do want to give readers something to relate to, right? Something to connect to?
2) A mere day later, I came across this blog post by Tiffany Lawson Inman about putting emotions into your writing.
