Advice to a Memoirist

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excerpt from Lenses, a collection of essays

Don’t let yourself be constrained by the limits of your chosen genre.

When you dream that your daughter is a mother and you a grandmother, write down what you see and what that feels like, and see where such a scene takes you.

Let your characters tell you which way your story should go. And one of those characters is the image of yourself that you have created and who now has a life and a will of her own.

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