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Where was your most beautiful winter memory?

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You might never eat another potato in your life.

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Write about the bath you would take right this minute if you could.

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What’s on your list?

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Champagne flues.  A row of them on a silver tray.  What is the occasion? Write every detail.

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What did your family call you? What was your nickname and where did it come from?

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You and your brother were always in trouble for something.  What did you guys do?

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The plane couldn’t empty quickly enough.  You want to shove people aside and run down the aisle but you wait your turn, and walk into the arms of...

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Are you curious about a particular animal? Write about your curiosity for a creature, something that you keep to yourself about. What’s your animal?

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What did your mother’s private space have in it? What is in yours now?

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What place is on your bucket list?

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Dear Writers

Your value as a person is not at all dependent upon the quantity or quality of writing you produce

Your identity as a writer is not at all dependent upon the quantity or quality of writing you produce

Your stories are still important even if they can only live in your head

You are still important even if you can’t tell your stories right now (or ever)

Having a story that fails or flops or stops or falls apart doesn’t mean that story is worthless, a waste of time, and you are not worthless or a waste of time because you couldn’t see the story through

Don’t tell yourself getting published is your capital-G Goal, and that you’re worthless until you’ve been published. The goal is to practice that art that makes you so happy. If you’re writing specifically to get published, you’re no longer writing for you.

You are still important whether you last wrote ten minutes ago, yesterday, a month ago, or three years ago.

People, your parents, society, capitalism will tell you all of these things aren’t true. Fuck them.

And please be kind to yourselves and to your writing.

Love,

A writer who has learned all these things the hard way so maybe you guys won’t have to

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Write the story of a piece of furniture that you can not let go of.

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Thank you M. J. Moores and Infinite-Pathways for the opportunity to be interviewed. Happy to share my experience with the non-fiction publishing world and my perpetual journey to dig deeper into the world of memoir.

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What do you remember being the heart of the place in your childhood home?

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Twister. Monopoly. Trouble. What was your favourite?