Emotional Writing Examples Novels & Stories

Telling herself that she’d be more successful writing if she was relaxed, Everly lay down on her couch and let her imagination wander. *** The sunshine turned to rain the next day. Everly didn’t mind at all since she always wrote better in gloomy weather. She reached fifty-thousand words on her new story at noon, so she took a break for lunch. After warming up some leftover Chinese food, she checked her book sales and spent some time on social media. She clicked on a message someone had sent her on the site of the ‘HeartChat’. Her heart sank and she closed her eyes for a second. Crude, suggestive words and nauseating images swam before her eyes, poisoning her good mood. Everly sighed and w

That sentence made my chest feel warm. It was true. I didn’t start writing for bestseller lists. Not for sales numbers. I wrote because there were emotions I needed to pour out. Stories that demanded to be born. I looked at the desk. In the corner lay an old notebook, its cover slightly worn. I opened it. On the first page, written in blue ink, were the words: Stories always find their way home. I smiled without realizing it. Liam watched me. “You’re smiling.” “I remember this sentence.”