The Therapeutic Power of Writing Fiction

I recently stumbled across the book;

Rewrite Your Life - Discover Your Truth Through the Healing Power of Fiction

Author Jessica Lourey's book is a guide to writing fiction using a process of harvesting your own emotions and experiences which can then be transformed into the building blocks of a writing project such as a fiction novel.

Jessica states that "Journal entries wouldn't have worked for me. I couldn't survive reliving the pain. I needed to convert, package and ship it off. Many of us need to reprocess out garbage, but can't bear the idea of writing a memoir."

Jessica writes about The Therapeutic Benefits of Writing a Novel in this interview and expands further in her Ted Talk Use fiction to rewrite your life

I find the ideas in this book fascinating.

Creative writing can help create key benefits for personal well-being but it is not often thought of in this way.

Framing the habit of writing fiction as part of a practice of self-care and emotional health can help unlock unique benefits and add an extra emotional depth to our own stories.