Trauma Writing: A Beginner’s Guide
11 min readMar 29, 2021
Sometimes stories take us to difficult places.
Some of the most powerful works of literature are the ones that take us to the darkest corners of our worlds and our minds. But consider the Yiddish saying, “Anything can be survived if it’s part of a story.” As the characters we honor in nonfiction—or create in fiction—cope with trauma, readers can access their own pain and find healing.
