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Yes, the memoir prompt is that simple this week. Write about a time you itched, physically or metaphorically. (pg. 50)
And here is a clip from an interesting section of Natalie Goldberg’s book called “Sideways Step” about not entering your memoir writing head-on, but sideways. She talks about a friend who wrote really good short stories, but hadn’t yet revealed his true self, “his generosity, his crazy, ironic, smart-ass, dark humor and wit and his basic deep intelligence.” Eventually, you have to let the wind take you back into that real self so that your writing will become transparent. Someone reading your work will know its you. After twenty years of writing, her friend finally created “Daddy Needs a Drink,” irreverent essays about raising his kids that you couldn’t stop reading. She says they were “funny, mean, sarcastic, but also intimate, tender and vulnerable.”
Who are you and what’s your itch?
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Interesting post. I think you would really enjoy reading Secrets of a Mysterious Older Woman by Constance Feathers, its a funny and smart memoir.
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