It’s a writer’s prerogative to decide on the genre of their work, but autofiction is not a genre. Fiction distances authors from their personal lived experience of truth, not from the truth itself, while memoir insists that authors actually own their personal truths.
On this day in 1968, before many of you might even have been born, my uncle, Robert F. Kennedy was gunned down while running for president. Gunned down on his victory night. He left a devastated pregnant wife and ten children and a shattered extended family.
What kind of systems do you have in place when you first start a writing project? Our minds like to compartmentalize things, so creating documents & labeling them as scenes or chapters can be helpful. But what's the best way to #write, you ask? One session at a time.
I'm thrilled to be the inaugural guest on @DimondMag's new podcast, Bowing to Elephants. I love any opportunity to talk about women's stories, memoir, and in this episode we touch upon Virginia Woolf—who always elicits meaningful conversation. https://t.co/RlRSQ49MEE