I loved all of this. Should be required to read for any memoir writer! There’s a fork in the road which is, do I write truthfully from my lens? Or do I not write and not be me? If you can’t do the latter, then you follow Elissa’s advice and carry on.
"Don’t write to the people you’re scared of—then you’ll write like you’re scared. Write to the people who will thank you for articulating something they couldn’t" A million times yes!
The writer CLEARLY DEFINES the perfect ratio of oral-sex scenes to wedding ceremony scenes to include in a piece of writing (1:2-5), and then she fails to include EITHER in the post itself! This frightens and confuses me, a clueless reader who is just here for the oral sex and wedding scenes!
I loved all of this. Should be required to read for any memoir writer! There’s a fork in the road which is, do I write truthfully from my lens? Or do I not write and not be me? If you can’t do the latter, then you follow Elissa’s advice and carry on.
"Don’t write to the people you’re scared of—then you’ll write like you’re scared. Write to the people who will thank you for articulating something they couldn’t" A million times yes!
The writer CLEARLY DEFINES the perfect ratio of oral-sex scenes to wedding ceremony scenes to include in a piece of writing (1:2-5), and then she fails to include EITHER in the post itself! This frightens and confuses me, a clueless reader who is just here for the oral sex and wedding scenes!
I'm leading the horses to water, but I can't make them bone or wed!
lmao
Great tips and perspectives! So many writers struggle with this.
Also, just signed up for your March 30 class. So excited!
I'm excited to enter into the eternal student-teacher bond with you!
“Example of a lawyer” I’m cackling 😆
Perfect timing: day three of residency (and of rereading my traumady class handouts)!
I hope you took many productive naps.
okay KENNEDY CENTER!! You are so fancy, we love to see it.