Flutterfly

I suspect that most writing has an element of personal experience in it. Frankly, I think that writing about whatever is going on in our lives helps us to make sense of it and should never be undervalued. However, even that can be useful at a later date. Have you ever tried to use the autobiographical stuff in another way - turn it into fiction using a made up character, writing it from another person's perspective or maybe writing it with a different end result - i.e the one you would like to have happened if only you had had the courage to do whatever?