The first two reading for Tuesdays class were interesting. There were good tips for the unpublished writer. I always knew that you can’t be stopped with a couple of rejection letters. For example J. K. Rowling got rejected a good amount of times before Harry Potter got published. A publisher handed it to his young daughter because he thought it was crap. When she came back out asking for more, he decided to publish the book. I know that I will lack confidence the more rejection letters I get (if I ever decide to publish anything), but I have to remember to keep on trying and never sell myself short.
With the third reading I enjoyed Donna Bijan’s short part. It really connected me to my own family. She inherited her mother’s cooking recipes and I always wanted to have my mom teach me how to cook. In the end, I wound up being better at baking than cooking and have turned to that instead still hoping my mom could teach me. The part of her family inspiring her to tell anecdotes at the table also hit me. My father and mother both encourage me to write (and always ask to see my writing) because my father comes from a line of writers. He was very shocked to hear I changed my major, but very approving.
With Jon Reiner’s part made me laugh. In another class we were told that writing a memoir is hard because you don’t want to offend those it’s about, but it’s a memoir not a fiction so you have to keep as close to the actual story as possible. His paragraph that got me was: “Emotionally, writing a memoir was much more difficult than writing fiction. As I dug into the belly of the story, I was also conscious of the risk of exposing or violating the trust of the people who were closest to me and were required to be in the story. Fiction provides the writer with the devices to draw from reality with less likelihood of causing personal damage, or at least provides the camouflage that enables eventual repair. The memoir forces you to stand naked.” It really struck a cord with me because my teacher of creative writing said the same thing. I wonder if that’s where he got it?
I didn’t really care for the fourth reading. I dislike CreateSpace. My friend who published her book had problems with it.
I thought the fifth reading was a bunch of crap. It didn’t really answer the question of the title. It just told me something I already know. If you can submit a work to multiple publications at the same time then do it. If you can’t then don’t do it.
With the third reading I enjoyed Donna Bijan’s short part. It really connected me to my own family. She inherited her mother’s cooking recipes and I always wanted to have my mom teach me how to cook. In the end, I wound up being better at baking than cooking and have turned to that instead still hoping my mom could teach me. The part of her family inspiring her to tell anecdotes at the table also hit me. My father and mother both encourage me to write (and always ask to see my writing) because my father comes from a line of writers. He was very shocked to hear I changed my major, but very approving.
With Jon Reiner’s part made me laugh. In another class we were told that writing a memoir is hard because you don’t want to offend those it’s about, but it’s a memoir not a fiction so you have to keep as close to the actual story as possible. His paragraph that got me was: “Emotionally, writing a memoir was much more difficult than writing fiction. As I dug into the belly of the story, I was also conscious of the risk of exposing or violating the trust of the people who were closest to me and were required to be in the story. Fiction provides the writer with the devices to draw from reality with less likelihood of causing personal damage, or at least provides the camouflage that enables eventual repair. The memoir forces you to stand naked.” It really struck a cord with me because my teacher of creative writing said the same thing. I wonder if that’s where he got it?
I didn’t really care for the fourth reading. I dislike CreateSpace. My friend who published her book had problems with it.
I thought the fifth reading was a bunch of crap. It didn’t really answer the question of the title. It just told me something I already know. If you can submit a work to multiple publications at the same time then do it. If you can’t then don’t do it.
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