Inside the Mind Behind Terms & Conditions: Amy Goldmacher Reveals the Untold Story of Her Memoir
At the same time, while I was writing, I kind of tore apart what I had to see if I could figure out what I was actually saying. I asked myself: what am I really writing about? What is each little bit about? And I put in a spreadsheet a keyword and a description of that keyword. And sorted it by alphabetical order to make it easier to read. And suddenly it became really interesting.
Once I saw it in alphabetical order and by keyword, new possibilities opened up. I could see that it didn’t have to be chronological, and it could go from topic to topic and be more associative, with one piece leading into another without it being in chronological order. That made it easier to write new bits to fill in some of those gaps. Once the structure emerged, then I had a vision that I could execute. There was something really magical about that structure emerging because I had no idea when I started that this would be the direction I was going in, but I was really interested in it and fascinated by it. I think that helped sustain the writing of it and bringing it into an existence.
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