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Hey All,
I'm writing a memoir and I have a lot of backstory fragments that I feel are important to share about my childhood and family. My memories aren't complete enough to really write flesh-out scenes. I was thinking of using dialogue with my psychiatrist as a literary device to share some of these anecdotes. Is that lame?
My story starts with me getting committed to a psych hospital at age 25 then goes back to the beginning and proceeds chronologically. And I actually did have a scene of dialogue with my psychiatrist shortly after my commitment in the beginning of the book, so it sort of flows alright...I would just flesh it out into a looong session/conversation to fill up a chapter.
After this session, I would then go back to important events from childhood where my memory is complete enough to flesh out full scenes. Ultimately, I return to getting committed to the hospital and reveal the reason why that happened in the end.
Any thoughts?
I'm writing a memoir and I have a lot of backstory fragments that I feel are important to share about my childhood and family. My memories aren't complete enough to really write flesh-out scenes. I was thinking of using dialogue with my psychiatrist as a literary device to share some of these anecdotes. Is that lame?
My story starts with me getting committed to a psych hospital at age 25 then goes back to the beginning and proceeds chronologically. And I actually did have a scene of dialogue with my psychiatrist shortly after my commitment in the beginning of the book, so it sort of flows alright...I would just flesh it out into a looong session/conversation to fill up a chapter.
After this session, I would then go back to important events from childhood where my memory is complete enough to flesh out full scenes. Ultimately, I return to getting committed to the hospital and reveal the reason why that happened in the end.
Any thoughts?