HeyJaredTouchpoints: A Writer's Truth
A writer in mid-career — what's working, what's not, craft, process, success and defeat, what she’s trying to accomplish, and what she has given up on.
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TACKLING A FEAR OF PUBLIC SPEAKING: (opens the original)
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This was written in 2010 and transformed into the essay “Opening My Hands” in Midlife Solo. But here is the first draft, a vivid evocation of a powerfully transformative moment in my life.It’s burned into my brain, the terror of that opening night in the theatre in 1996. I was playing the part of a successful older woman, a part requiring enormous charisma and aplomb. And all I could think, as I sailed onto the stage for my first entrance, was, “I have no idea what I’m doing here. I’m not very g
Bringing loved ones to life: (opens the original)
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Recently I held my annual July Write in the Garden workshop; twelve writers spent the day in my garden writing with prompts — writing on the spot, without mulling, just seeing what emerges instantly when memory and thought are triggered by a sentence, image, artefact, or word.I didn’t get much chance to join them but did manage once to sit down after giving them one prompt, with ten minutes to write.This is what came out for me, lightly edited. Does this give you at least a partial sense of the
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