Because of a comment on a recent post, I thought I would just give a quick two cents.
Writing, I think, can kinda be like acting. When a person acts, they are portraying a story that may or may not have happened. It usually didn't happen to them. But they use their past experiences to try to get at what the character is experiencing. They approximate the emotion that would be present in that situation by extrapolating from their own experience and approximating what one might feel in said situation.
Writing is like this, but in a slightly different way. When you write a thing, even a fictional thing, there is some basis in personal experience, either your own or someone you've talked to or interacted with. But to write a compelling narrative, I think one must imbue it with reasonable and believable emotion. Sorta like acting. You have to imagine, or approximate, what really happens in that situation emotionally by, well, extrapolating from personal experience and approximating what one might feel in that given situation.
So, while that exact situation may never have happened to the actor (or the writer), one of a similar nature probably did, if they are able to portray authenticity. After all, the autonomous reaction one has when faced with trauma is the same, whether you're being molested or watching your girlfriend being eaten by supernatural fog.
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