Gotta love being an empathetic writer.
On one hand, I'm sure it makes my stories better, me being able to feel what my characters would be feeling.
But on the other hand, I can barely put them through some of the stuff I put them through. The next chapter of À New Hope starts with Mahali and Doa coming out to their parents and it took me like a day to even write a sentence because I know exactly what's gonna happen and I know exactly how everybody's gonna feel and I feel it too.
Tips for this?
Don't write people. I have a hard enough with these animals, and I just can't do it to people.
Remind yourself it isn't real.
But that's all I've got. If anybody has any tips, I'd like to hear them.