Susannah Conway | Revision and Memory

Memoir presents a tricky twist on the revision process: the challenge of memory.

Susannah Conway is back on the show this week to discuss revision and memoir. Writing about real life presents a special challenge: recreating scenes and mining our past to get the emotion of the moment on the page. No matter how much we journal, no matter how intense these moments in our lives were, they are, by necessity, reconstructions.

Susannah and I discuss her revision process for her memoir This I Know, covering everything from the time it took her to go through the process, to all the emotion writing the book brought up. If you're writing a memoir, or if parts of your book draw from memory. This is your episode.

I'll be back next week with our solo episode wrap-up for season two. I can't believe we're almost at the end. Didn't this season go so fast?

Visit this episode's show notes page here: https://www.secretlibrarypodcast.com/episodes/susannah-conway-s2-ep14 

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