If you are not comfortable with baring the deepest (and sometimes darkest) parts of your soul, then you might want to reconsider perusing writing as a career. That stuff you want to keep hidden is typically what creates the best sellers. And if you think people will never know because it's 'fiction', you would be wrong. You have to understand it to write it well. What we do is beautiful, even the ugly parts. ESPECIALLY, the ugly parts. 🖤