Hemingway’s cure for writers block
Writing tips from beyond the grave
Until Hemingway was almost 6, his mother dressed him as a girl, in ruffled dresses and bonnets to match his older sister Marcelline.
Freud be damned, not everything can be blamed on mothers, but years later, his sister would write a tell-all confirming that their mother dressed the two of them as ‘twins’ and they’d have tea parties and play with dolls.
Marcelline and Ernestine, his mother called them, and he hated her.
His father was a country doctor that mostly looked the other way, even posing for family photos with their “two” little girls. Except weekends, when he’d put Ernest in pants and take him out into the wilderness to learn hunting, fishing and hiking and teach him how to act like a boy.
When he was almost 6, his mother finally allowed him to dress as a boy. A mostly somber little boy, he loved nature and the wilderness and would grow into both a talented and prolific writer — and a…
