What are you talking about? I'm NOT MAD!

Anger is something I don't care for.

Who does. Right?

However I must say, it does get things done many times. It's funny. I think nowadays many of us want to avoid ever getting angry about anything since we want to think we live happy lives which cannot ever include anger.

But come on.

In the real world, we will get angry.

The fiction world works much the same way. What would fiction be without raw emotion? And anger is very essential.

What makes you angry in real life?

For me, it could be many things. When my laptop stops working when I'm on a new story, watch out. There will be a string of obscenities followed by more obscenities and most likely small small object will be hurled across the room. Or Windows 8?

Hold up.

I'm getting angry now.

Besides the obvious laptop problem, I guess I usually get angry in the most base way- when I'm inconvenienced. It's not when things don't go my way. I can handle defeat as good as most. I have hardly ever felt anything but a tad disappointed at rejections on my stories or books. I can take a hit and come back without anger.

But let the deck covering (held on by duct tape at the moment) come off when I start to mow and yes. Chaos ensues. The last time I beat the poor cover against the mower on three separate occasions. The good news is that plastic does not feel pain (that we know of) and so I wasn't hurting anybody with my actions.

However in fiction (and unfortunately in real life), people do get hurt by other angry people. In Misery, Annie Wilkes' anger boils over into some very painful moments for poor Paul Sheldon. Hamlet was awfully angry with his mother which led to chaos. Sonny Corleone allowed his anger to blind him to the point where he got taken out. So often in fiction when anger is fired up, somebody will likely go down.

However not all anger is bad. When we see red, that is bad in the moment but often times I think we see more clearly afterward. Life is not so physically strenuous as it used to be with technology and so many of us get used to being comfortable most of the time and becoming angry seems like something we shouldn't do. But human nature does not change and so now and then, it's good to get your blood up a little if nothing else to know you're still alive.

So never be too hard on yourself for getting angry. It's going to happen. Life just has a way of getting to any of us. So let it happen, but just try not to stay that way all the time.

Besides, you never know. You might just see what's holding you back and break through it.

And obviously, it makes for great stories.