I'm writing a tragedy-love story as a project, and I'm a bit out of my element. A little help and tips would be appreciated. The story is about a woman who was rendered brain dead in a car crash. The story is written in first-person both from the woman's (Faith) and her husband's (Jesse) point of view. Jesse is unable to move on after the accident and, despite knowing that his wife is brain dead, insists that she will wake up from her coma, he keeps their house clean, visits her body in the hospital everyday, etc.. Faith, who is now a spirit, realizes that she is dead and that the only thing keeping her on earth is the fact that her husband won't let her go. She follows him around, trying desperately to communicate with him and allow her to move on, but is also having second thoughts about moving on to the next world because she thinks she is not ready to leave her husband behind.
My question:
How do you make the reader communicate with the pain both Faith and Jesse are feeling? How can you make them feel pain these two are going through, with out making both the prose and the sentences seem cliche? Thanks in advance.
My question:
How do you make the reader communicate with the pain both Faith and Jesse are feeling? How can you make them feel pain these two are going through, with out making both the prose and the sentences seem cliche? Thanks in advance.