Unlocking Creativity: How Writing Islands Became the Secret to Building My Memoir’s Hidden Archipelago
My hazy memory can credit a fellow writer-friend for unlocking my frozen process with a tiny comment, “Just write islands.” Sit and just write a scene, a list, a few words that might get you to a shitty first draft, to borrow Anne Lamott’s phrase. This island metaphor is now the cornerstone of any long, creative work I approach. I could manage to sit down and write a little bit, especially since by the time I was really writing, I was a new mother with very little time because of my very little sidekick.
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