Thanks for doing this advice column. I grew up reading advice columns and still love them. Feedback from Sewanee for my memoir was that people want to see more of me on the page, that I should slow down. What have you found to be some of the best ways to do this? Many thanks!
Lilly, I have finished my memoir, Heart of a Clown, Body of a Woman, a draft of which you so astutely evaluated several years ago. Any suggestions for how to find independent publishers of memoir with interest in the female body in a male-determined world and how art and archetype help us integrate tragedy with comedy and grief with joy?
Lilly. Thank you. Do you have books you’ve written that you still want to finish? Why is finishing so hard? Is it just finding the right form? You let yourself be so vulnerable on the page. I admire that. I started something new that feels more raw.
Thanks for doing this advice column. I grew up reading advice columns and still love them. Feedback from Sewanee for my memoir was that people want to see more of me on the page, that I should slow down. What have you found to be some of the best ways to do this? Many thanks!
Thanks Yvonne, I'm going to answer this one in the next newsletter!
Thanks so much!
Lilly, I have finished my memoir, Heart of a Clown, Body of a Woman, a draft of which you so astutely evaluated several years ago. Any suggestions for how to find independent publishers of memoir with interest in the female body in a male-determined world and how art and archetype help us integrate tragedy with comedy and grief with joy?
Congratulations Victoria! I'll talk about this in the next installment.
Lilly. Thank you. Do you have books you’ve written that you still want to finish? Why is finishing so hard? Is it just finding the right form? You let yourself be so vulnerable on the page. I admire that. I started something new that feels more raw.
Hi Lilly
Family visits happened so I got off track. If you feel like you can talk about the projects you let go of
I’d be interested in hearing if they nag you or if you just put them in a drawer and say we are done with each other.
Thanks! I'll address this in the next newsletter.
Thank you! Just to clarify, do you mean book projects I started writing and then set aside/abandoned?