Timeline kicks my ass as I scroll to make photographic reply to a tweet after allowing access to the photo I took (checks metadata) 32 minutes ago… #smfh#failing#out
“Write what happened. What you physically experienced—not just actions you took or that were taken against you, but what you smelled when you fought with your dad in the kitchen.”
World-building isn’t just for fantasy--Memoir world-building is showing the cultural environment that made unequivocally bad behavior seem tolerable and the good/normal times that kept us from leaving.
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trying to remember that i'm a good writer not because i know what to do in the first or second or third draft... but because i learn from the writing what to do by the fifth or fifteenth draft