Recently the brilliant memoirist Deborah Taffa visited with me and my students and amongst the many gems she laid out before us was the idea that a memoir process could start off like this: imagine that your best friend has died.
Thank you so much, Bree! I'm so glad. I love having you in class and it's very different each time for me, too - because the visiting authors change and because whatever I am doing with my own writing and my clients contributes to what I have to offer every week. And with the culture stuff - I'm very careful, I don't recommend a million things, I really go with what I strongly enjoyed and admired. I don't think any grown adult has time or space for more than a few recommendations - it can be deadening to see a list of 12 - like, oh geez, I'm so behind, it's work to read this list.
Every time I take your class I learn more! And every time I take your cultural recommendations it delivers!
Thank you so much, Bree! I'm so glad. I love having you in class and it's very different each time for me, too - because the visiting authors change and because whatever I am doing with my own writing and my clients contributes to what I have to offer every week. And with the culture stuff - I'm very careful, I don't recommend a million things, I really go with what I strongly enjoyed and admired. I don't think any grown adult has time or space for more than a few recommendations - it can be deadening to see a list of 12 - like, oh geez, I'm so behind, it's work to read this list.