How to Recontextualize Depression When Writing

When I was younger I idolized Anne Rice. All of her long, winding, ornate descriptions of her elegant vampires and their plights over humanity, immortality, and the ruthless effects of time on all things but them had me yearning to embellish like her. I learned that she suffered from depression.

Grieving over the loss of her daughter, Rice toiled on what would become Interview with a…