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How I wrote my memoir

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:.

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How I wrote my memoir

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  1. How I wrote my memoir

  2. August 21-26, 2011 This thing happens. Even in the midst of it, I know I’ll want to write about it.

  3. August 28, 2011 I do a 1,876-word freewrite:

  4. September 28, 2011 I make a series of false starts:

  5. Then I reluctantly open the freewrite I did a month earlier. It’s useful! I begin copytyping:

  6. September 29, 2011 During an in-class freewrite, I rewrite my introduction from memory:

  7. September 30, 2011 I try another introduction, then transcribe what I wrote in class:

  8. October 1, 2011 Surfing aimlessly, I find inspiration:

  9. I spend a couple hours on the first part and make an attempt on the second part.

  10. October 2, 2011 I scrawl in my journal in a café:

  11. October 3, 2011 I 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.”

  12. October 5, 2011 Aimlessly Facebooking, I find inspiration:

  13. October 7, 2011 I do some tinkering, but I’m too tired to really go for it:

  14. October 9, 2011 A little scribbling before bed:

  15. 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

  16. Soundtrack (in alphabetical order) JuliannaBarwick, The Magic Place Christine Fellows, Paper Anniversary Mariah Carey, E=MC2 The Field, From Here We Go To Sublime Fugazi, Repeater +3 Make Believe, Of Course Modest Mouse, The Lonesome Crowded West Modest Mouse, This is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About Joanna Newsom, Have One On Me RED = loud BLUE = background GREY = barely audible

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