Unveiling Heartbreak and Healing: Brenda Miller Reveals the Secrets Behind Her Powerful New Memoir.
There is a purpose to telling your big emotional story to others in certain venues, to maybe connect with others and help others. But if you’re turning it into literature, what’s the purpose of that? I think it’s more for you to understand more deeply and in a different way your story and what it means for others. This is where a writing teacher can help, where prompts can help. If you’re open to prompts, they’ll always lead you in unexpected directions.
I’m always writing from randomness, it’s the best way to surprise yourself. Going beyond where you think the ending is in a short piece, too. In a recent Substack post, I wrote about how I was writing the first essay in Love You, Bye, “Elijah,” and the whole time I was like, I don’t know why I’m writing this, but I’m just gonna write it and see. Why am I remembering this particular memory out of the million memories I have from childhood.
