From the caves of the ancients, to now
So, after all these posts on the “Tools” I use to heal, tools which drove my decision to write, the final question to answer was: “What “form” of writing to use?
For me, it was a simple choice – STORY.
It is a method as old as humans themselves,
the method used around the campfires of ancient hunters and warriors,
the tool heard from caves, to feudal halls, to family hearths.
Story.
Story, in all its ugliness, joy, failure, and success.
Story, not as “happily ever after,”
Story, not as journalistic objective news reporting
because that is never possible.
Story, not as seen by others,
but Story, as what happened to me.
And when you write your own story
you need to put it ALL out there on the table,
see all the bits and scraps, pain and mess,
mistakes and breakthroughs,
spread out before you.
Only then can you start the long hard work
of examining each piece,
and then putting the pieces all back together.
Only then can you see the whole picture,
and what it can teach you.
What is “story?”
Because my academic background is science, not literature, I went looking to people steeped in both writing and psychology for the answer to this question. These were my favorite and most helpful answers:
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