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The daily writing challenge does sound like a helpful tool. Good luck with the writing.

If you ever want to tackle something autobiographical like, you could look into taking a creative nonfiction approach. This allows some minor changes, some anonymous options, plus the flair of creative fiction elements like having sections of dialogue and such, depending on how you want to write it. I took a creative nonfiction class in college even though I hate writing about myself and still found it quite interesting. It could be an option to consider.