Inside the Mind Behind Terms & Conditions: Amy Goldmacher Reveals the Untold Story of Her Memoir
AG: This was another learning moment for me as a writer because we’re told that we don’t need to give the reader a lot of backstory or context before getting into the story. As the writer, I wanted to make sure that these identities were foremost on the page and the reader would know this is what the story is about. There definitely was tension around “should I have even put that in there?” but it was important to me as both the writer and the main character of the story to put forth and interrogate these identities. And looking back on it now, several years after completing writing it, I can see that this is my voice, my style: I can’t separate the questioning and the analysis from the writing. It is part of who I am.
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