WRITE DOWN YOUR STORY

WRITE DOWN YOUR STORY

Sometimes it is really useful to write your story, either as a story or in a journal. This can help you examine how you want to describe the past, present and future and help you choose the words (values, lessons, beliefs) about those experiences and what they meant then, and what they mean now. The process translates thoughts and feelings into words which can more easily and objectively assessed, and also prepares the ground for your future choices and how you want to story to progress.

Never under-estimate the power of fairy tales, fables, mythology and day-dreams. Hollywood is based on them and society is built on them. We all know the hero, victim, villain, the crisis, battle and victory. These are the narratives that shape and guide us. When it is us writing the story we get to choose which role we want to play.

If you feel you cannot write about yourself, if that is too self conscious and emotionally loaded, write about someone else in a galaxy far far away, or a long long time ago, or perhaps something non-human. Whether the character is Harry Potter or Bilbo Baggins, or maybe even Princess Leia or the Wookiee. They all have strengths and weaknesses, needs and wants, virtues and flaws. How would they experience your story. You get to choose. It is your story, and its not ended yet!

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