N is for normal

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In the list of words I tend not to use about me and my inspirations, and normal isn’t one of the words that tends to spring to mind (unless I’m masking). But normal is actually an inspiration for me.
It’s a starting point – a way to contrast everything that people expect. Challenging the idea of normal, or at least that’s what I hope to do with my stories.

Normal – the setting on a washing machine – isn’t exactly one of the things that I list as my qualities. I revel in being quirky, I guess, but honestly, it’s a steeper price than I like sometimes. And that’s where all of the inspiration in my stories come from. Normality, tipped on its head, or used as a comparison point, though, I acknowledge that it’s not the easiest of things to do without being salacious, trite or just…not compelling.

So…why is it that we look at compelling stories versus normality? Why do we look at everything that we read, we view, that we explore in games. Me, I binged Fallout this weekend, and while we’re living in a warring world. It might not escalate (oh please no) to nuclear war, but we live with that in the back of our head.
So, we watch, we learn what might happen, we take comfort in our ‘own’ normality – comfort that there’s a new normal.

But… No matter what we read, I don’t think it’s normality we crave. It’s knowing what we’d do, what we’d face.

Again, talking about why I read and watch true crime – it’s for accurate depiction of the things I write, but it’s also because my normal has none of that, and I’m safe and that my brain is wrong (again, we’ll hit this for P for psychosis). It’s exhausting to try and work out what I’m doing to mask normality, to ensure I’m safe. To give me room to breathe.

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Kai( Kai Viola, Author )

Kai is a writer, author and avid reader.  A mental health advocate, Ludosport athlete and coder. She’s the mother of two young adults, owned by two cats, and lives with her beloved in the Cotswolds.