Fiction or Not

I have this fond memory from my childhood, which I want to write about. The memory is about a barefoot journey to a nearby bakery to satiate my hunger. It is neither a special nor an important event, but it is one of the vivid memories. I feel a pang of guilt every time I procrastinate composing it. The conflict is real, given the artistic choices. No wonder constraints breed creativity. Done is better than perfect.

The predicament concerns writing it as a memoir or a fictional tiny story. Apart from a few key details about the community I grew up in, I faintly remember everything else. The pull to write it as close to my memory is hard, but I won't do justice to it. A long time ago, I was listening to a lecture about writing essays, and the lecturer was talking about an essay writer and how their memory failed them to the extent the author was questioning the trueness of their childhood recollection. That puzzled me for years, and I realized how memory is such a fragile faculty not to be trusted over long periods. No wonder some legal documents ask you to sign a document ".. to the best of your knowledge..."

Let's say its fictional; the next dead end I am stuck on is the perspective I should employ. Should I use the first-person perspective of a 6-year-old boy, or should I take a third-person view on the story of a 6-year-old boy? My current writing habit is not conducive to writing intricate tiny stories with well-thought-out details. I have to work on it over a couple of weeks and let the ideas marinate before they are ready for the oven. I must research and read more about writing short stories and the technicalities involved.

The third problem is the awareness of the future. If I write it in the third person, should I make this third person voice aware of current happenings? If not, then I have to research the current happenings around the story's time. It is easy to misstep this boundary.

I should have a checklist of critical variables for a particular tiny story so I don't hop on a tangent and make it incoherent.

I am committing more time to reading daily, which will impact my dedicated time for daily posts. I want to keep them short and succinct and work on more detailed stories in parallel. This will also give me time to work on the ValueRefined blog. ValueRefined idea has been brewing for far too long, and I think it is time for a weekly in-depth review of business topics ranging from project management, and decision-making to building resilient teams.