Even the good angels, I think, would inspire in humans some sort of fear.
If there are too many cooks in the kitchen, the dish is not going to work out.
Finding one's voice - or creating a narrative voice that has the power to carry your story - is the hardest part.
I believe a good memoir should have all of the narrative elements of a novel: character development, dialogue, descriptive language, and metaphor.
Maybe that is what marriage is: Two people creating a cult together.
I taught myself to write in order to understand who I was and so yes, writing was an act of self-actualization in the beginning.