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When your subject matter feels too heavy for readers

My novel is about mental illness but I worry that writing from inside that experience will make it too dark or inaccessible

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The responsibility to accurately represent difficult truths conflicts with the desire to create art that people can bear to encounter.

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