How Far for YOUR Passion Project?
You may be familiar with the Netflix TV series Wednesday, based on the Addams’ Family. In that show, set in contemporary times, the teen protagonist Wednesday writes a novel.
On a typewriter.
She has only one copy.
Her roommate at her boarding school is shocked to learn Wednesday made no copies. Of course, the manuscript gets stolen and planted in this ginormous wood pyre being prepared for an epic bonfire. Wednesday is determined to rescue her passion project, so she climbs into the base of the pyre and has to crawl her way around all the piled wood looking for it. Naturally, that’s when the pyre is lit, so now Wednesday is also fighting against fire.
My daughter, watching it with me, turned to ask me cheekily, “would you do that to save your manuscript?”
She knows I’m claustrophobic.
And terrified of fire.
And you know what my immediate answer was? “YES!” My follow up? “Duh, of course!” I’d crawl through fire, wage war, go up against the devil to rescue my characters—they’re family, after all.
Right?? 🙂
Everyone is welcome to feel however they feel about their writing, but I do hope, for the sake of your own sanity in this very difficult writing world, that you also love your stories, your characters, your efforts as much as I love mine. Maybe you won’t risk bodily harm (fine, fine) but nonetheless, keep your passion close. That’s why we do what we do.