As a trans-nonbinary person, growing older has been a complicated process, navigating mental illness, toxic relationships, the version of me I created to receive the love I thought I wanted and the version of me I became to receive the love I truly deserve. But sometimes we run out of map. What does moving on beyond that look like for me? A love letter to the cycles in my life.
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Channeling the Universe: Finding my faith in magic through storytelling
Sometimes it feels like I’m chasing the story. But that’s not the truth. The truth is that the story is a scared child. They are asking for their story to be told, but slow to trust. I am sitting down by the fire I built for us every day and listening to them, connecting with them, seeing them. And every time we do this it can get a little bit easier. And some days it gets harder again. Some days the blackberries we pick are sour and the wood is wet so the fire sputters out, we shiver together and don’t say much except that I will come back tomorrow to try again.
Uncovering the Truth
Writing from personal experience or from deep emotions can be scary at times. Sometimes, like I’ve done, it requires a first draft that is purely the facts of it all. But if the goal is to create fiction from your own personal story, there are some tools that I have used that have helped me to build a novel with independent, fully-crafted characters that are not thinly veiled versions of me and my friends.