Personal Lives in Our Stories by Salty Vixen

as writers

we have been told to write what we know about

we may weave stories in distant lands

with fairies and were-wolfs and zombies running amuck

with drama so thick it can be cut with a chainsaw

but when we work we work in details of our own lives

don''t we

our own dramas

the love

hurt

the pain

the betrayals and conquests

the only way to be a better than good writer is to live a full life

a full life gives voice to your stories

makes them a place where in the words others can connect

if you as a writer are not willing to share

to expose yourself then you have no business being a writer

certainly not one for romance or eroticism

i have all but stopped writing

i came to a place in my life was too painful to relive

even in disguise

i did not want to retell my story

i didn't want to put my finger in the hole of deep bloody pain

i couldn't

until today

today the pain grew too great to ignore

and i realized that writing was my psychoanalysis

my therapy

it kept me sane

through

the sickness

the divorce

the hospitals

the betrayals

the wrong choices

and the mountain of work

so i found the courage and a title for my new story

it is called Without Shame

it will be about wrong choices i made

through it i hope to embrace my lost self

so that’s my story

what will you do today

to move your words forward

tell me about it