"Because everyone 'has' a memoir, we all have a stake in how such stories are told. For we do not, after all, simply have experience; we are entrusted with it. We must do something--make something--with it. A story, we sense, is the only possible habitation for the burden of our witnessing."
Patricia Hampl, "Red Sky in the Morning"
from Janet Burroway, Imaginative Writing: The Elements of Craft
P.S. I hope you enjoyed Lee Ann's interview with Kris Newman last week. Wasn't that great? I had to go look up her blog (of course), and now I've added it to my blogroll.
What are you reading and/or writing these days? Any must-reads to recommend for the summer?
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