I bought a book that is going to help me in writing my memoir. It has 21 days of daily writing challenges. I am going to be posting these challenges here, on my blog. The first the book asks you to write about is what I hope to get out of this 21-day challenge. Here is what I wrote:

Challenge:

Here is what I would like to learn and accomplish from this 21-day challenge…

I would like to learn more about myself, to understand how I think and why I think that way. I know I am trying to do that in therapy, but any additional help can’t hurt. I want to learn how I became me. What influenced my way of thinking? I know a lot about it, but there is still more to learn. I know my mom and dad had a significant part in the way I think and feel about myself. I also know that my mental illness and the stigma it carries had a lot to do with it.  I hope these challenges will help me explore these things. I hope that they will help me dig deeper into my truth. I want the memoir I am writing to be about our truth. Whatever that might be. I am a member of a community called Dissociative Writers. They have a memoir course, as well as weekly workshops. The workshops are free, but the course is not. It’s called Memoir 101. But it’s mostly for DID people who want to write their stories. That has been heavy on my mind. Do I want to write our story? Or just the part of our life that involves the mental illness. I tend to think I want it to focus primarily on our mental illness and our identity issues. I think it would not be safe to write our whole story. Maybe that is something we can look at for the future. Anyway, I kind of veered off from this prompt. Basically, what I hope to get from this 21-day challenge is a deeper look into who I am and what influenced me to be me.