Taming Trauma: Fiction Or Non-Fiction?

Taming trauma isn’t easy, but the pen‘s a powerful weapon against it. 

Taming trauma is no easy feat, but the pen can be a powerful weapon to help tackle it. Indeed, much writing is inspired by trauma; putting it on the page can be cathartic for both writer and reader. So what’s the best way to attack it – fiction or non-fiction? In disguise or in the flesh? 
While writers may feel impelled to write about trauma, whether it be their own or trauma they have uncovered in other people’s lives, it will not be an easy task. Victoria, a novelist, and Mark, a memoirist, look at ways of helping writers to address the challenge.