HeyJaredWriting Aloud
Fortnightly(ish) dispatches on family stories and silences, grief, mothering and writing a first draft of my memoir.
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9/12: world turned upside down (opens the original)
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This is the 21st instalment of my monthly Reflect posts: a check in with my writing goals for the month that’s ending, where I’m at with the first draft of the memoir that I’m planning to complete by the end of the year, and any interesting ideas emerging from what I’ve been writing about. I really enjoy writing these posts, and find it both interesting and valuable to reflect on my progress each month. I hope you do too.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/
another day gone by (opens the original)
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I had a whole post written and scheduled to publish last weekend, but something made me hesitate. I moved the scheduled publication back to the Sunday morning and then, after the phone call from the hospital at 4:30am, I cancelled it.So this isn’t the piece I wrote last week, and it isn’t exactly the piece I’d write now, if I was starting from scratch. I’m still not completely sure whether I should publish it, because it feels tender and private and half-formed, but I think that I probably will.
8/12: slow and steady (opens the original)
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This is the 20th instalment of my monthly Reflect posts: a check in with my writing goals for the month that’s ending, where I’m at with the first draft of the memoir that I’m planning to complete by the end of the year, and any interesting ideas emerging from what I’ve been writing about. I really enjoy writing these posts, and find it both interesting and valuable to reflect on my progress each month. I hope you do too.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/
Family Silences and Storytelling (opens the original)
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dog star days: a summer mini seriesI’ll be sharing some posts from the archive in July and August, while I focus most of my time and attention on finishing the first draft of my memoir project (or more accurately, the first draft of the main narrative strand of my memoir project - there’s still at least two other strands to be woven in). Today it’s one of my first ever posts, from October 2024, back when I thought the memoir project I was embarking on would be about the four generations of eldes
7/12: a multitude of shapes (opens the original)
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This is the 19th instalment of my monthly Reflect posts: a check in with my writing goals for the month that’s ending, where I’m at with the first draft of the memoir that I’m planning to complete by the end of the year, and any interesting ideas emerging from what I’ve been writing about. I really enjoy writing these posts, and find it both interesting and valuable to reflect on my progress each month. I hope you do too.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/
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