Nevertheless, novelist Rachel Kadish discovered something unusual when she started writing about happiness.
Check it out:
"Suddenly nothing seemed more urgent to me than this question of happiness: Was it attainable, and at what cost? And what did a happy ending look like—not the blanched-out happiness of a Hollywood ending, but the sort of textured, hard-earned happiness that two real people could create in their lives?"
It's a great question, and doesn't just apply to happiness. When you are writing about any emotion, swim against the literary tide--don't let stock ideas about those feelings bog you down.
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