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Originally Posted by skeksi
Good for you, Zoo! I think you are right not to focus too much on committing to tell a certain part of the story. If you end up talking about something, it's because it needs to be talked about--so maybe other parts of your story need to come before that part.
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I think this is hard for me because I'm very analytical and logical and I want things to be ordered and fit into little boxes. Might be part of an OCD thing, actually. So I have a very hard time thinking in a less linear way. When it comes to telling my story, I feel like it has to be a chronological narrative that makes sense and has a beginning, middle and end. Which of course is not how these things work (things like emotions, memories, etc). So, I struggle with it.
I feel sometimes like my T wants me to tell the story in that A->B->C fashion, but in thinking about it I can see that's me, not her. She will say to me, like she did today, "start wherever" and I can't do that. How do you not start at the beginning? It doesn't compute.
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