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Good morning!
In my last post, I mentioned a short jaunt I had planned. As you might already know from Instagram, I've been visiting my friend Lisa of Amid Privilege whom I first met "in real life" back in 2011.
My husband flew down to join me yesterday, and we've planned a pleasant weekend in this gorgeous city -- although the light cold I arrived with has morphed into full-blown laryngitis after two days of catching up with Lisa and talking about our mutual writing projects. . . .
Which is what I wanted to share with you this morning -- that over the past year, Lisa and I have been partners in guiding our respective long-form writing projects to completion of Rough First Drafts. She's just posted her perspective on this partnership, and mostly I'll just echo what she says. I can't overstate the value of having a thoughtful and discerning and open-minded reader on the other side of the manuscript I'm writing. We don't ask much of each other in terms of feedback, and we certainly haven't needed any editing (structural or stylistic or copy-editing) at this early stage, but we have often asked each other whether or not a particular passage or approach is working as is or if expansion or clarification might be necessary.
Her draft is fiction -- and I must tell you I eagerly anticipated each new instalment -- she's created some characters I hope you'll meet someday and she's put them in a plot with satisfying twists and tension. My draft is a memoir focused on my relationship with my mother in the context of mourning her as well as of being, myself, the mother of daughters. Very different, obviously.
But what's been the same is the value of the partnership in providing a structure so that we pushed to complete a number of chapters or a number of words within a certain timeframe, so that here we both are with completed drafts.
I'm still not sure what I'll do next, with mine. It's very personal, and I'm still working through how much I want to share and what that might mean for family. Lisa's book should find its way to a shelf in your favourite bookstore -- I know you'll love it!
Meanwhile, though, may I also echo what Lisa wrote on her blog this morning, about friendships forged via digital platforms? I mean, that might be where our friendship began, but can you get more "IRL" than hiking "Cardiac Hill" together? More than that, hiking it and having a passing female hiker of-a-certain-age stop in her tracks to confess the relevance to her of our discussion of certain gynecological issues pertaining to menopausual women. She apologized for eavesdropping, and we weren't that loud, honest!)
Now I really have to get out on The Streets of San Francisco. Not sure Michael Douglas will be there, but I have my own handsome guy to accompany me.
Happy Saturday -- and to my fellow Canadians, Happy Thanksgiving Weekend!
In my last post, I mentioned a short jaunt I had planned. As you might already know from Instagram, I've been visiting my friend Lisa of Amid Privilege whom I first met "in real life" back in 2011.
My husband flew down to join me yesterday, and we've planned a pleasant weekend in this gorgeous city -- although the light cold I arrived with has morphed into full-blown laryngitis after two days of catching up with Lisa and talking about our mutual writing projects. . . .
Which is what I wanted to share with you this morning -- that over the past year, Lisa and I have been partners in guiding our respective long-form writing projects to completion of Rough First Drafts. She's just posted her perspective on this partnership, and mostly I'll just echo what she says. I can't overstate the value of having a thoughtful and discerning and open-minded reader on the other side of the manuscript I'm writing. We don't ask much of each other in terms of feedback, and we certainly haven't needed any editing (structural or stylistic or copy-editing) at this early stage, but we have often asked each other whether or not a particular passage or approach is working as is or if expansion or clarification might be necessary.
Her draft is fiction -- and I must tell you I eagerly anticipated each new instalment -- she's created some characters I hope you'll meet someday and she's put them in a plot with satisfying twists and tension. My draft is a memoir focused on my relationship with my mother in the context of mourning her as well as of being, myself, the mother of daughters. Very different, obviously.
But what's been the same is the value of the partnership in providing a structure so that we pushed to complete a number of chapters or a number of words within a certain timeframe, so that here we both are with completed drafts.
I'm still not sure what I'll do next, with mine. It's very personal, and I'm still working through how much I want to share and what that might mean for family. Lisa's book should find its way to a shelf in your favourite bookstore -- I know you'll love it!
Meanwhile, though, may I also echo what Lisa wrote on her blog this morning, about friendships forged via digital platforms? I mean, that might be where our friendship began, but can you get more "IRL" than hiking "Cardiac Hill" together? More than that, hiking it and having a passing female hiker of-a-certain-age stop in her tracks to confess the relevance to her of our discussion of certain gynecological issues pertaining to menopausual women. She apologized for eavesdropping, and we weren't that loud, honest!)
Happy Saturday -- and to my fellow Canadians, Happy Thanksgiving Weekend!
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