Found you this weekend and subscribed! I am writing a memoir about my experience with parental alienation. My son is now 20. I have struggled with using a pen name or my own as it is sensitive material and want to protect him. I don't want his life on display, nor do I want the ire of his mother. Conversely, I want to be authentic and eventually use the book to do speaking and other services. Finally, with using my real name, I would have a built in audience of eager readers as well as fellow published authors. I feel stuck.
Where are you in the writing process? Are you in the early draft stages? If that's the case, worry less about writing under a pen name or not and focus on just writing the most honest, real, vulnerable, and thorough draft of your story first. Write what needs to be said FOR YOU and then revise from a place of how to make it ready for others.
@@pubgiant24 then worry less on what happens later and focus on the now. As I heard Elizabeth Gilbert once say, "Draft from the wound. Revise from the scar."
Found you this weekend and subscribed! I am writing a memoir about my experience with parental alienation. My son is now 20. I have struggled with using a pen name or my own as it is sensitive material and want to protect him. I don't want his life on display, nor do I want the ire of his mother. Conversely, I want to be authentic and eventually use the book to do speaking and other services. Finally, with using my real name, I would have a built in audience of eager readers as well as fellow published authors. I feel stuck.
Where are you in the writing process? Are you in the early draft stages? If that's the case, worry less about writing under a pen name or not and focus on just writing the most honest, real, vulnerable, and thorough draft of your story first. Write what needs to be said FOR YOU and then revise from a place of how to make it ready for others.
@@thewriteplacerighttime thank you. Yes, I am in the early draft stages. more like several bins of journals ha.
@@pubgiant24 then worry less on what happens later and focus on the now. As I heard Elizabeth Gilbert once say, "Draft from the wound. Revise from the scar."