Hate hate hate it!
When I attended the last writer's conference that I went to, and every publisher and agent I met with was interested, (in part because I did my homework about who to meet before I went) I left with one message from all of them, you have to write about your life and mix it in with your inspirational message.
Why???????? Can't something that works just stand on its own?
NO that is what will bring it into a possibility of reality for people when they read what you went through and where the message comes from and how you use it in your life.
But isn't how it has proven to work in the lives of others possibly even more powerfully than it has worked in my own important enough?
NO people want to know about YOUR life and hear YOUR story.
Well, if they only knew how extremely painful it is for me to recall and how little I want to dwell in the past maybe they could understand why I hate writing about it.
I am starting with this journaling to see if I can warm up to it but I doubt it.
Why must I be forced to remember my pain and suffering to help others?
Am I willing to do that?
Apparently so far, I have not been. And I said at the time, well then, I'll save this for when I am older and more distanced from it. But will I ever become distanced enough from it to be able to? I don't know! I really don't know! Even now just thinking about it is agitating me.
I spent my life trying to forget my past and I've been successful insofar as forgetting the details. I remember trips to hospitals in ambulances but I can't recall the events before, during or after. And it go...
No Rocky! You don't sound crazy!! It's difficult to write about or even to remember the painful episodes of our lives. It's like opening an old wound and letting all the infection out....it hurts like hell! BUT...sometimes we must re-open those wounds so that we can fully heal from them also, as th...
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