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Yvonne Liu's avatar

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!

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Lilly Dancyger's avatar

Thanks Yvonne, I'm going to answer this one in the next newsletter!

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Yvonne Liu's avatar

Thanks so much!

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Elizabeth  Sweeney's avatar

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.

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Elizabeth  Sweeney's avatar

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.

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Lilly Dancyger's avatar

Thanks! I'll address this in the next newsletter.

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Lilly Dancyger's avatar

Thank you! Just to clarify, do you mean book projects I started writing and then set aside/abandoned?

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