Writer's Journal # 8

Primary Insight

• Childhood (Journal or Diary)

• Go to past and Future Writing

• Verbal Abuse (Mother and mother boyfriends)

• Sexual Abuse (Brother)

• Being Bullied (School and teachers)

• Think deep into the past and get all details on how writing had played an important role in my childhood.

How did writing in a journal or diary play a significant role in my childhood?

• Metaphor Narnia

• A way to cry without having to show it in the real world

• Helped me feel like I was talking to someone

• Helped me come out and tell someone of the abuse that was going on

How did this life situation and writing experience shape your writing experience and writing perspective?

• Write about the truth

• Help others going through the same trauma with my writing

• I want to be able to make a bigger change not for myself but for other people who need it.

• Believing that writing can hundreds of people’s lives and maybe even the whole world.

• Use quotes that will help explain the meaning of what you are talking about

Paragraph 1 Idea:

“ Monsters don’t always lurk in the dark. Sometimes they hide in plain sight,” Belle Aurora. Of course, all my monsters were in plain sight but I was in the dark I was the one hiding from the world. My writing journey started with the verbal abuse from my mom and her boyfriends, then being sexually abused by my own brother and on top of all of it, I was bullied throughout my school’s history. Having a journal was my only of escaping just like the kids in Narnia I wanted to escape the horrible things happening in the real world and I would imagine myself fighting back and being happy for once. Writing for me was a gateway out of this world, away from all the pain I had to endure in my childhood. The writing was a whole different world, for me it was an escape from all of reality, to feel safe, and I used my words to cry instead of crying out loud.