Unveiling Heartbreak and Healing: Brenda Miller Reveals the Secrets Behind Her Powerful New Memoir.
BM: Exactly. It could be that perhaps writers or students are being directed more to just write in one genre and category, too. Like, I started as a poet, so I’ve always been drawn to the image, a metaphor, a connection that I’m making — and not necessarily to the thing I want to tell you. Perhaps we need to be encouraging our writers to branch out, you know, try poetry, try fiction, and just see what you can bring from all those genres into what you see as your primary.
RP: So, what would you tell a budding writer? Somebody who’s coming into it with all the emotion? How do you help someone create enough distance so artifact does end up eventually trumping emotion?
