I have a new website, www.carmelalanzawriter.com, and I feel good about how professional it looks. And it is easy for me to make changes and updates on it. Instead of working on my poems that need revising, I am spending time on my website. Not sure if that is a good thing? I have an option to start a newsletter on my website and am still trying to figure out how to use it.
I am slowly understanding that my memoir should not categorized as a memoir. It does not fit the mainstream idea of a memoir book. I see my life story as the skeleton of the book, but it is a mix of genres (poetry and personal narrative), and it is not linear at all. It also does not focus on a specific time in my life or a specific problem that I survived. I took an adult learning class on "writing a memoir" and as the instructor discussed the various types of memoirs, I realized mine did not fit in at all. I also realized that I was writing without even considering who my audience would be.
I have been adding poems to the manuscript and it seems my ancestors have been taking over. The Atlantic Ocean is also there as a force, a presence, and a connection to my ancestral line.
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