Tell the Story
If you missed Part One of my interview with Lynne Barrett, you can find it here. If you want to meet Lynne, she will be reading from and discussing Magpies at the Miami Book Fair as part of a panel with Tayari Jones (Silver Sparrow), Ana Menendez (Adios, Happy Homeland) and Justin Torres (We The Animals) on Sunday, Nov. […]
read moreAs my MFA thesis director, Lynne Barrett alternately pushed and pulled me through the writing of my memoir-still-in-progress, and for that I will be forever grateful. In addition to being one of the best editors and teachers I’ve ever known (and I’ve known a few), Lynne is also a brilliant writer, and her new short story collection, Magpies, […]
read moreThis has not, historically, been my approach. As all veteran perfectionistic procrastinators know, postponing the beginning of any project works to defer, or explain, feared failure. You want to lose 20 pounds before your class reunion a year from now? You could start today, and lose 1.67 pounds every month, easy-peasy, just skipping that glass […]
read moreYesterday, dishes. Today, papers. Until I feel a little more comfortable (which I will define for now as having written 25,000 words before November 10), unless I have something really important to say, I’ll be blogging about NaNoWriMo and how each day’s writing went. Today’s word count: 2081. Total so far: 4161. Why I wrote […]
read moreI’ve told the story here before about how my maternal grandmother, Anne Jones, cleared off her dining room table and then covered it again with a Vogue pattern and beautiful fabric, pinning and cutting and finally taking the whole thing into to a closet-turned-sewing-room to transform it into a dress. And during this process, often […]
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For years I kept secrets in silence. Then, once upon a time, I spoke and wrote them to a handful of people and began to blog anonymously. Today I tell my stories face-to-face, online, and in a memoir coming soon. Telling our stories leads to freedom, empowerment, and growth, for both the teller and the told. Is today your once upon a time, your time to tell your story?
