Don't Write a Memoir Unless You Have To
/Don’t write [a memoir] unless you feel like you absolutely have to. It’s a painful process, kind of like pouring acid into an open wound or sticking chopsticks into your eyeballs or searching for metaphors that aren’t cliché. It’s hard emotional work. It’s hard writing work. Things you thought were sealed, emotions tucked neatly into a solved and resolved corner come frothing and festering out. Be prepared for tears and trauma and many hours thinking about ways to express those traumas in logical sentences.
JAIME LOWE