Sadness was something I was thinking about in my life outside of writing, so it wormed itself into whatever I wrote.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There are times when I'm really happy and I write something really sad, and vice versa.
It can be really powerful to write something when you're sad.
My writing comes not from the happy moments, but from struggle and grief.
It's much easier to write when you're sad. But you can end up isolated and depressed because you almost need to put yourself in that situation to have that angst to write from.
I'm not writing just about melancholy stuff anymore, I made a point to cover a wide range of emotions.
There was a sadness over me, a melancholy. That's always been a part of me - those are some of the things that lead you to the arts.
Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a product of our own thought. We create it out of whole cloth.
When sadness happens in the middle of work, I separate my personal grief from my train of thought.
We all have sadness in our life and things that we can draw upon.
I write about heartbreak because I like writing about sad things, but I'm writing happy songs, too!
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