Post #72 – Women’s Memoir Writing, ScrapMoir – Matilda Butler and Kendra Bonnett
by Bettyann Schmidt
Every beginning is a consequence – every beginning ends some thing. ~Paul Valery
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another. ~Anatole France
Memoir Writing, Uncovering More Layers
As I write posts here on Women’s Memoirs, I’ve also been writing my own ScrapMoir. It’s been an ongoing project for the last two years, during which I’ve shelved it for months at a time and then pulled it back out to continue.
One of the things I’ve been doing wrong, I just discovered, is going back over what I’ve already written and trying to pick up the story from there. For me, this is detrimental. [click to continue…]
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