how i wrote my memoir
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How I wrote my memoir. August 21-26, 2011. This thing happens. Even in the midst of it, I know I’ll want to write about it. August 28, 2011. I do a 1,876-word freewrite:. September 28, 2011. I make a series of false starts:. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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How I wrote my memoir
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August 21-26, 2011This thing happens. Even in the midst of it, I know I’ll want to write about it.
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August 28, 2011I do a 1,876-word freewrite:
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September 28, 2011I make a series of false starts:
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Then I reluctantly open the freewrite I did a month earlier. It’s useful! I begin copytyping:
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September 29, 2011During an in-class freewrite, I rewrite my introduction from memory:
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September 30, 2011I try another introduction, then transcribe what I wrote in class:
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October 1, 2011Surfing aimlessly, I find inspiration:
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I spend a couple hours on the first part and make an attempt on the second part.
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October 2, 2011I scrawl in my journal in a café:
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October 3, 2011I listen to an interview with Ursula K. Le Guin and find inspiration:
“[Literature] always works a lot better if you don’t really know what it’s talking about.”
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October 5, 2011Aimlessly Facebooking, I find inspiration:
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October 7, 2011I do some tinkering, but I’m too tired to really go for it:
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October 9, 2011A little scribbling before bed:
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Relevant Google searches (Sept. 30-Oct. 9)
dog eye; cat eye; dog eye diagram; chrome gut; “chrome gut”; veterinary supplies; covidien animal healt (sic); cat leg; cat body; graceful antonym
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Soundtrack (in alphabetical order)
Julianna Barwick, The Magic PlaceChristine Fellows, Paper AnniversaryMariah Carey, E=MC2
The Field, From Here We Go To SublimeFugazi, Repeater +3Make Believe, Of CourseModest Mouse, The Lonesome Crowded WestModest Mouse, This is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think AboutJoanna Newsom, Have One On Me
RED = loudBLUE = backgroundGREY = barely audible