Unlocking Creativity: Elissa Altman Reveals the Radical Power of Saying ‘Yes’ in Memoir Writing
So, I wrote an essay about what had happened where I first questioned issues of creative permission, and I sent it off to Krista Tippett’s On Being blog, not expecting them to publish it. And then when they did, I thought, what am I going to do now? Following that, I wrote a piece about it for The Rumpus. While all of this was going on, my second memoir came out, so it didn’t exactly stop me from writing. In 2017, my mom had a catastrophic accident requiring me to become her primary caregiver, and I couldn’t turn to them for advice.
