Reliving The Hardest Parts of Our Past

One of the hardest chapters for me to write was about what happened in a blue Volvo when I was about 5.

Itโ€™s one of those #metoo stories I never told.

Buried in my subconscious, it first raise itโ€™s ugly head, when in my teens, my boyfriend and I played at having sex.

When authors talk about it taking a year, or more, to write a book, theyโ€™re not wrong, For itโ€™s stories like these that slows us down.

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Writing Memoir by Vig Gleeson

On Writing Memoir

I donโ€™t want to write a memoir. Itโ€™s too raw and scary. Too โ€˜laying it all on the line,โ€™ too vulnerable. Iโ€™m afraid I wonโ€™t find theย #TRUTH, Iโ€™m afraid my story will be lopsided, with only my point of view. For whatever happened to me, happened because of something else that happened to someone else.

And I donโ€™t know their truth, for if there isย one thingย Iโ€™m learning from writing my memoir, it is that the TRUTH is elusive, it changes and morphs into different forms the closer I get to it.

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