I have been for the last couple months writing my story, slowly writing down what i remember from my childhood and talking to others.. I am right now trying to get my characters together, as I need to disguise them, some may not only need to be given new names but completely different identities, or genders.. It's really hard because I want to protect their identities, I am still friends with many of the people from my childhood.. thanks to facebook.
It's a really hard task because some people in my life mostly relatives were not nice, and they didn't even realize it, I need to tell certain stories that happened but I do not want to offend anyone, or call them on the carpet.. these people are not the main part of the story but they are still there. So I will not only have to change characters, but change settings. At first I was like.. great this person from church can become someone in my neighborhood.. oh wait...so and so who lived in my neighborhood is on my facebook and they knew everyone. darn it.
The dilemma that may halt a story I have been wanting to tell for several years. I may have to go back to my mom's first idea from when I was 12 and just tell my birth story.. however I really want to talk about my childhood and my disability from my perspective.. sadly I do not know how to do this without talking about other people who were with me.
I have a feeling this project will stretch me as an artist.. I am not saying writer cause I am not a writer.. I am artist.. so I may have to tap into my creativity and embellish the truth.. which sadly to me feels like a lie. My life story is about to become fiction.
