memoir

so for my craft of creative nonfiction class, i have to write a 15-20 page memoir piece. i've been wanting to write a memoir for a long time now, and i'm getting REALLY into it. it's really cleansing and healing. i feel like each scene i write is one that i can now let go of from inside of me. i can feel that pressure slowly emptying out, trickling out like air escaping from a balloon. it feels so good. i don't want to stop at 20 pages. i want to keep going until i write the whole damn thing. it's also gonna be pretty damn intense though because it's pretty closely tied with family. i let my advisor read the first five pages and the first thing out of her mouth was "wow, what a crazy family!" and, i mean, she's right. but aren't all families crazy, with crazy stories? i'm slightly nervous at the reaction that this will get from my family (more so my extended than my parents), and i mentioned that to my advisor. i liked her answer: "you're allowed to tell your point of view." and she is absolutely correct. plus, i always have the fiction degree to hide behind :) and, there's always little things an author can do, like change names. but what's the point in that? everyone who would be offended or care about anything in it would know exactly who was who anyway. anyway, like i said, this is so healing and it's making me feel so much lighter with each word i get out. maybe this is what i need to do to finally overcome my past and to be able to permanently let it go. anyway, i'm loving doing it right now!