“Unveiling the Unseen: Teresa Wong Explores the Extraordinary Depths of Everyday Life in Her Graphic Memoir”
LL: Chaos reigns supreme.
TW: Yes. And in 2012 my house burned down, and I lost my manuscript—all the marked up pages.
LL: Wow, so painful!
TW: Yes, painful, however, I did have a digital version that I had typed out the easy fixes for, so I still had that. I had written to my mentor and said, ‘Did you happen to keep any photocopies?’ And she said, ‘honestly, I don’t. And also, this is kind of a sign that you can start over.’ She was very gracious. She didn’t say it wasn’t working anyways, but I knew that fiddling and fixing wasn’t going to solve the problems of the book—she knew that, and I knew that. And so the fact that the manuscript was gone really didn’t matter anymore.
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