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"A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession."
Albert Camus
"People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I will begin with this confession: whatever I have done in the course of my life, whether it be good or evil, has been done freely; I am a free agent."
Giacomo Casanova
You know, I've got a confession to make myself. I'm not really a priest, I've just got my shirt on backwards.
Ryan Stiles
Hello, I am Joy , this week's drama editor. In this issue, confessions will be our subject .
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Welcome to the Drama newsletter
Aren't confessions dramatic? They must be because, ranging from literary to sleazy, they sell very well, especially during the recent years, since anyone who has ever misbehaved or has been in the company of other misbehaving people starts to write a book under the guise of memories or telling it like it is.
Confessions play tricks on us by using our feelings. They make us empathize with the writer's words since the writer tells us a story derived from his shadowy side, and our interest piques due to becoming privy to some secret or to the hidden pain of the confessor in the plot.
One of the earliest confessions belongs to Saint Augustine where the saint not only recounts his life but also confesses his sins and analyzes their meanings and significance. Here is an excerpt of an incident from his early years when he stole a few pears under the influence of his friends.
"But since my pleasure was not in those pears, it was in the offence itself, which the company of fellow-sinners occasioned.
What then was this feeling? For of a truth it was too foul: and woe was me, who had it. But yet what was it/ Who can understand his errors?"
After St. Augustine, Jean Jacques Rousseau, In 1770, offered his Confessions as an autobiography with self-examination of the emotional and moral conflicts in his life.
In The Brothers Karamazov, the skeptic Ivan feels guilty for his father's death and becomes mentally unstable, suffering "the accents of anguish, the personal anguish of a soul unable to bear the horrors of this world."
The Confessions of Nat Turner is a 1967 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by William Styron. Presented as a first-person narrative, the confessions are based on an actual slave uprising organized by a slave named Nat Turner in Virginia, in 1831.
Most memoirs have confessionals in them; otherwise, they would not sound genuine, but true confessions are more than memoirs. They are admittances to guilt, imagined or real.
Confessional writing can easily be integrated into our stories, since a confession is a problem that finds its resolution through the actions of its protagonist. The reader's involvement in the story depends on how emotional the problem is because the general formula for a confession is: sin, suffer, and repent.
Usually a confession is written:
 In first person or is inserted into a dialogue by the person confessing
With everyday language as if the speaker is talking directly to the reader
Within a framework consisting of a beginning, a middle, and an end, just like a story or a scene.
With emphasis on the background information of the problem
If you are using fictional confessions belonging to secondary characters, their plots should be simple enough, so they don't overshadow the central conflict, and when the storyline permits, these characters, too, can come to terms with their mistakes at the end.
The abundance of confession magazines attests to their popularity, and the success in selling confession stories is directly proportional to the intensity of their emotional appeal or titillating effects.
If you have an article or a confession story to submit to those markets, be ready to sell all rights to the publishers. Their editors edit heavily, yet expect the writers to sign a document saying what they have told is the truth; plus, their responses to submissions may take time, sometimes up to a year.
Some of those confession magazines are: True Confessions; Best of Secrets Magazine; True Experience; True Love; True Romance; True Story; True Story Romance Special.
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