Oh Patti, I loved your book "Loving Large"; But I know I did not give my reflection of it as positive as I could have, while in m,y COVID depression. But, but I heard your voice of love loud and clear for your son Aaron. Now about keeping everything I write, like you I want to keep it all every morsel. As I finish the hundredth draft of my memoir, all 750 single spaced pages , saving and savouring every tiny morsel of an episode of my 83 years on this planet I know that only one son will read it all, and even then I'm not so sure. I have to cut and cut as you have said you did in order to get to the kernel the seed of what is really important and let the rest fall away in memory. But you say it so much better. You are an inspiration for all us writers reminding us of how brave we are to lift the pen and make the ink flow. Thank you. Can't wait to get your next book!
This is the truth! Thank you for sharing this so beautifully Patti. I didn't believe it was so when I started writing in earnest a couple of years ago... thinking it ALL mattered. It doesn't. Getting it all out of your system matters. What lands in the end is all the richer for the time you spent letting go with grace the parts you know in your heart won't serve the reader...
Oh Patti, I loved your book "Loving Large"; But I know I did not give my reflection of it as positive as I could have, while in m,y COVID depression. But, but I heard your voice of love loud and clear for your son Aaron. Now about keeping everything I write, like you I want to keep it all every morsel. As I finish the hundredth draft of my memoir, all 750 single spaced pages , saving and savouring every tiny morsel of an episode of my 83 years on this planet I know that only one son will read it all, and even then I'm not so sure. I have to cut and cut as you have said you did in order to get to the kernel the seed of what is really important and let the rest fall away in memory. But you say it so much better. You are an inspiration for all us writers reminding us of how brave we are to lift the pen and make the ink flow. Thank you. Can't wait to get your next book!
This is the truth! Thank you for sharing this so beautifully Patti. I didn't believe it was so when I started writing in earnest a couple of years ago... thinking it ALL mattered. It doesn't. Getting it all out of your system matters. What lands in the end is all the richer for the time you spent letting go with grace the parts you know in your heart won't serve the reader...