Om episode
Pain is awful, frightening, destablizing, and thrilling. Yes, thrilling! It's why a writer must put her characters through the wringer or else risk losing the reader. We want to experience a character having to do battle, to transcend agonizing, sometimes impossible circumstances, to rise above them, or perhaps, as a cautionary tale, let their pain consume them. Reading about pain is a dress rehearsal for confronting our own challenges, and for performing a kind of autopsy on our real-world reactions to painful episodes in our lives. It's why I believe that a world without pain would be a wasteland. This episode is also available as a blog post: https://victoriadougherty.wordpress.com/2013/10/08/why-a-world-without-pain-is-a-wasteland/ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/victoria-dougherty/support