Day 10 - Fueled by Rage - A StoryADay Update

Join Julie from Story A Day on Day 10 of Story A Day May as she discusses using strong emotions like rage as fuel for your writing. Julie shares personal insights on transforming negative emotions into positive creative energy and how it can lead to problem-solving and positive thinking. She also highlights today's writing prompt from Patricia A. Jackson, which encourages writers to pen a story from the perspective of a banned book.

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00:00 Introduction and Personal Update

00:08 Harnessing Rage for Creativity

00:48 Positive Problem-Solving Frameworks

01:26 Life Lessons from a Former Boss

01:58 Turning Frustration into Creative Fuel

02:07 Today's Writing Prompt: Banned Books

03:11 Mission for Today: Write with Passion

03:39 Final Encouragement

Episode Transcript

(00:00):
Hi, it's Julie from Story A Day herecoming to you on day 10 of Story
A Day May with a little update onhow my writing's going, what you
might like to be thinking about.
Let me tell you this, yesterdayI was writing from a place that
was a little bit fueled by rage.
There's stuff going on in the world,in your life, and I don't know about

(00:20):
you, but I feel things strongly, right?
And if things start to bubble up, ifthey don't go somewhere, then look
out world, look out family mostly.
So I was writing yesterday from a placeof being really annoyed about something.
But there's a thing I've learned overthe years, which is that just venting
about something isn't necessarilythe right way to deal with it.

(00:42):
Because if you vent tosomebody sympathetic, they
go, oh, I know it's terrible.
Isn't that terrible?
Oh, this that's I'm sosorry that happened.
You spend a lot of time in the negativeemotions, whereas if you use that
power, that rage to power something.
That's solution based, which can bewriting a story where the world is

(01:03):
better, or coming up with an actualsolution for a real world problem.
It immediately gets you into problemsolving and positive frameworks of
thought, positive thought frameworks,which takes you out of the wallowing.
and Lifts you up and startsyou looking towards the future.

(01:26):
I used to have a boss who weworked for, a very small company.
He owned it, and if somethingwent wrong, he'd go, don't
tell me what the problem is.
Tell me what your solution is.
And it was really annoying becauseit put the onus back on me.
It didn't let me wallow in the problemand it, he was demanding that I came
up with a solution for something.
Now, the positive part was thatif I came up with a solution

(01:47):
for it, he was all about.
Supporting me and hewas like, cool, do that.
What do you need?
Which took it from being an annoyingthing to being a great life lesson.
So I took my rage yesterdayand I worked on a project
that allowed me to think well.
You know what Good could come outta this.

(02:07):
Today's writing prompt at StoryADayMay, if you haven't checked it
out yet, is very much like that.
It's a prompt from Patricia A.Jackson, and it's about banned books.
And you and I can talk about howterrible it is that people are trying
to ban books and how stupid thereasons that they come up with are and
how it's the death of civilization.
And we could spiral around and around andaround and around and around and around

(02:30):
and until we just both felt terrible or.
You could take Patricia A Jackson'ssuggestion and write a story from
the perspective of the book that'sbeen banned, maybe from one of
the characters, and write a story.
And as soon as you startdoing that, you get to answer.

(02:50):
You get to create a better world.
You get to come up with solutions, and youget to implement them in your story world.
And if you don't feel better after that.
I'll be very surprised.
So that's what's going on heretoday for me at Story a day.

(03:11):
Your mission should you choose toaccept it, is to write a story today
that taps into something that irritatesyou and use that as fuel for something
that turns into something creative andwonderful and that lifts your mood.
Even if it just drainsthe poison, it will feel.

(03:35):
You will feel so much better.
Make some time for your writing today
because you're a writer.
It's what you do.
Keep writing.