I hope this message finds you well and October has drifted into your life gently. This is a bit of bonus content for my subscribers since I’ve gotten a few messages of thanks for these video interviews I sometimes do. l’m so pleased to share this audio and video conversation with the one and only Sue William Silverman. Sue returns to Let’s Talk Memoir episode 205 for a close look at how she approaches writing flash essay and the process of putting her new collection together.
In this episode we discuss evolving as a writer and bringing freshness to the same subject, experimenting with truncated and fractured forms, making a collection more cohesive, writing to feel centered, utilizing a recurring persona, the divided self in memoir, trusting the pieces will fall into place, giving ourselves new challenges, leaning into sensory details, writing as imagistically as possible, focusing on our obsessions, claiming our story, and her new collection Selected Misdemeanors: Essays at the Mercy of the Reader.
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