Monday, August 31, 2009

The logic of emotions





”Anyone can write a drama” I explained to my husband, ”if it is for someone in the same mood as the writer, because then the correct emotions are already in place.”

“The art of writing drama” I continued, “is to be able so take any mood of the reader or viewer and transform it to what you want for the story.”

In general he is not very interested in my writing. And even less interested in my reflections from reading a book about writing.

But this time he paid attention.

We have had an argument about feelings and emotions. Then I had claimed that he must stop trying to find logic in my emotions, because emotions are not logical.

“But if you can write a text that gives me the emotion you indented” he said, “how can you then claim that emotions are not logical? If there was no logic there, it wouldn’t be possible.”

I stood dumbfounded.

4 comments:

Olive =) said...

Men are always more focused on logic, while women thrive in emotions. =) Good luck in your writing!

Désirée said...

Thank you.

Don't make a man-woman thing out of this, please. My parents was vice versa.

scriptlarva said...

Hi,
I liked these post. It kept me thinking. I will blog about this, after a few days.
I am adding you to the friend's list in my blog. Keep up the good work.

Désirée said...

Thank you. You too.