So I've just experienced true life-altering heart-ache for

>>7736321
Are you australian?

>>7736328
Nope, United States.

I feel like I'm being setup for a punchline.

>>7736334
How does it feel to be 27?

No. Traumatic events can inspire work, but it's just a meme that art requires suffering.

>>7736343
Like I'm splintered into three paths, each equally as difficult and important, yet need to choose one to keep my sanity.

>>7736364
choose the most difficult one desu its the one u really want

>>7736369
Tell that to my ex.

>>7736369
I work hard, the problem is choosing "wrong" and wasting what could have been. Building my sandcastle too close to the incoming tide, so to speak.

>>7736418
You can't build a sandcastle outside of a beach y'know?

>>7736321
I've wondered the same thing. I got my heart absolutely shattered a year ago, and it brought me into touch with my emotions in a way that fueled a ton of writing for most of the next year. I'm just now getting over that incident, and am simultaneously finding it harder to work.

The anthropologist Shirley Brice Heath claims that people who read substantial literature from a young age because they were socially isolated are the most likely to write. I think it does take a bit of outsider perspective to make art.