Great article. Just a shout out that, in my own experience, writing FICTION can be better than writing about your own life because you can get closer to the truth or your greatest fears, than addressing them straight on.
E.g. I was able to understand a lot about my own fear of death (more my 2nd death of being erased) by writing a novel about characters enduring constant death in the apocalypse.
Very much inspiring me to write. Seems like a fun personal activity to write a belief or life lesson and then a story about how I came to hold that belief.
Great article. Just a shout out that, in my own experience, writing FICTION can be better than writing about your own life because you can get closer to the truth or your greatest fears, than addressing them straight on.
E.g. I was able to understand a lot about my own fear of death (more my 2nd death of being erased) by writing a novel about characters enduring constant death in the apocalypse.
Very much inspiring me to write. Seems like a fun personal activity to write a belief or life lesson and then a story about how I came to hold that belief.
This essay will change lives. Beautiful.