"The most difficult thing about writing this book was learning how to apply what I’d studied in fiction workshops to a project centered on my own experience and personal development..."
This resonates with me as a writer who began as a poet. I was trying to write my childhood experiences into poems, and I couldn't make it work in a way that felt true to me. I had to open myself up with prose to feel like I was being honest and clear about myself--both to myself and to the reader.
I always thought of memoir as something retired admirals did to fill their sunset years, along with writing letters to the Times of London. I'm beginning to realize that memoirs, collectively, are another way into both history and storytelling. Two sides of the same coin.
Yes!!! I loved this book!
This resonates with me as a writer who began as a poet. I was trying to write my childhood experiences into poems, and I couldn't make it work in a way that felt true to me. I had to open myself up with prose to feel like I was being honest and clear about myself--both to myself and to the reader.
I always thought of memoir as something retired admirals did to fill their sunset years, along with writing letters to the Times of London. I'm beginning to realize that memoirs, collectively, are another way into both history and storytelling. Two sides of the same coin.