However, later, when you reread all this maybe 5 or 10 years have passed and you might not know exactly what the problems were you were trying to solve in your life.
To understand better what I'm talking about try reading something written 100 or 150 years ago in English (or any language you choose) and you will see both the way people speak or write about things was very different than it is now. And even the words they choose are different and the meanings are slightly different and what is important to people slowly changes over time as well.
For example, I was watching an episode of "My Brilliant Friend" on HBO last night and could understand sort of what was happening because I actually lived in the 1950s post war as a child. I lived in the U.S. not Italy on the coast but I still understand a lot about this era. And the books people were reading like "Great Expectations" and "The Brothers Karamazov" fit the 1950s a lot of intellectuals and children who likely were going to go to college and learn to write well or whatever else they planned to do with their lives.
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But, other than that it was as if I was watching something from another country or world than now. Almost everything had changed from the way things were back then. It made me think of how the Middle East is where if a girl doesn't marry the man her father chooses she might be killed or beat up or disinherited still.
And this transition away of women having more freedom to choose was still in transition even in lower and middle Class Italy and Europe in the 1950s as well then.
So, you see the problems as Lila tries to escape being married to an obviously controlling and potentially violent man and likely an Italian Mafia member by all his actions. You can see this by the way Lila's father beats up his son when he supports Lila in not marrying this man.
So, like many "Period pieces" in writing or acting you have this obvious disconnect from now. Sometimes, like in this movie on HBO you can escape into other times because the writing and the acting is just so well done that you actually "FEEL" like you are there in reality.
So, in writing you have think about who your audience is or is going to be. If you are writing about your friends and you are 15 to 25 years of age this is one thing. But, will other people understand your writing who are of different ages and backgrounds around the world?
Will what you write be able to be translated into other languages in such a way that they will be able to grasp enough of the story (real or fiction) so that they can have some real meaning into their lives from what you have written?
As you go through life you become more experienced both nationally and internationally to the point where you can share things and more people might be able to relate to what you are actually writing about and why its important to you and maybe to them as well. Or is it just entertaining to take people's minds off their problems?
Thinking about all these things is important as a writer if you want to be really good at what you do.
I'm more of a story teller than a writer because I hate to edit so much. So, I often think about what I'm writing like if I'm there with you around a campfire telling you about life and how I have experienced it. But then again everyone is different in what might be meaningful to them.
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