Before you begin

There are nine questions ahead of you, one to a page — four about where you are now, then five memory windows looking back. Some will take a sentence. Some will take much longer. Both are fine.

There are no right answers here, and nothing is being measured. Write the way you would tell it to someone you trust — plainly, out of order, unfinished if that is how it comes.

If writing is not the easiest way in, you can speak instead. What you say is turned into text you can read over and change before you continue. Nothing about your voice itself is looked at.

Every word is saved as you go. Close this and come back tomorrow, or next week; you will pick up exactly where you stopped.