Unlocking Creativity: How Writing Islands Became the Secret to Building My Memoir’s Hidden Archipelago
It took a few attempts at making my book into a book-with-a capital-B for me to understand that I could organize the book any way I wanted, that these islands could hold together loosely in what I jokingly called an archipelago, a word whose own etymology transitioned from something specific to something more loose, more general. In the 1500s, it only meant the Aegean Sea that was filled with small islands. But then the word began to mean any sea that could hold many islands. And by the 1800s, the word meant the islands held together in the sea and not the sea itself. My book didn’t need to be a book with-a-capital-B, a singular idea of what the word should mean — my book could be an archipelago, a loose connection of islands that sits in a sea of my making.
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