Making Heartbreak Real (Holly Schindler)

I think the best part of any book is the internal stuff. Writing or reading. I love the internal struggle more than anything. More than any high-stakes external scenario. 

The struggle, for me as a writer, is to find an external story as riveting as the internal. 

 

Because that's the true mechanics of story, right? The internal struggle can only come to its completion because of an external goal. Something has to be in doubt. Something important could be lost. Something important could be won. Or saved. 

But in order to get it, that internal struggle has to be addressed. That main character has to become a fully realized person. 

Maybe for some readers, the internal is only something that accompanies the high-stakes external story. 

For me? 

It's the external that's but a vehicle for the internal struggle, the heartache, the growth. 

The internal story is where it's at. 

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Holly Schindler is the author of the YA A Blue So Dark