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Life is an education, whether I'm struggling to keep up in college as a non-traditional student or trying to make sense of it all in my Just as every journey begins with a first step, every story begins with the first word.             Happy New Year, fellow writers and bloggers! Believing in yourself is what life’s all about, isn’t it? Whether you are a college student struggling with clas*es or a writer struggling with a man*script, you need to believe you can do it. You need to take the chance and at least try.  Otherwise, you’ve already failed.              Is it easy to truly believe in yourself? No. At least it’s not for me. I can’t seem to get out of my own head. Insidious thoughts keep voicing their ugly opinions. In other words, it’s easier for me to help my children think positively and help fellow writers find the point of their man*scripts than it is for me to commit to a point for my college memoir and move forward with the man*script. You see, I’m not trapped inside other people’s heads, only my own. I can hammer away at their negative thoughts from the outside, offering positivity, focusing on the good rather than the bad. I don’t have to live in their thoughts.             This college memoir is my first attempt at a book-length man*script. I have a first draft that is more a summary of what happened during my college experience rather than a memoir story with a “because of this, the next thing happens” trajectory. Even though this is a book-length man*script, I’m trying to break down the writing process as I do in my short story writing. Do you break down a difficult project into smaller pieces to be able to move forward? Let me answer a few questions for the memoir project. Please offer any insight you may have as this truly helps me to move forward. The main goal of the protagonist in the college memoir story is to help her special needs daughter, her oldest. Victoria needs to find