: Re: Writing what my family may not want to read I am going through a difficult time in my life and, as a keen amateur writer I’m seriously considering writing about my experience. My motivation

@Goswami879

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There are multiple options.

Don't.
Write a draft, shelve it up somewhere and consider publishing it in 50 years or so.
Ask for consent from at least all major characters in the story. (So-oooo not happening.)
Use a pseudonym, ideally, also rename the characters. Possibly also combine/split/rearrange the personalities and "clean up" the events, but then it's fiction.

For the last option: many established authors are known to use the autobiographical events in their prose, in most cases it's obfuscated to an absolute irrecognazibility by anyone not familiar with authors situation. To name a foreign-language classic that is quite obviously done like this: "The White Guard".

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