Writing from Memory
How writing fiction sourced and transformed from memories can be a form of reinvention... and protection.
“Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.”
—Albert Camus
I always knew I wanted to write, but there's a reason I didn't continue with journalism even though I (partly*) majored in it. Turns out, I didn't want to stick only to fact or things that need to be outwardly proven. I didn't want to relegate my storytelling to only the "real" world—I've had my head in the clouds since I was a child. I wanted the freedom to exaggerate, to elevate, to lie. I wanted to rewrite history. I wanted to write an escape.
(*I went to a liberal arts college where it was possible to self-design your major, and mine was a combined major of journalism, creative writing, and photography.)
And so I find myself here, in the wild west of fiction.