tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213500650791928857.post6337239181153758419..comments2023-10-12T18:06:52.041-07:00Comments on Memoir Mind: Knowing Mindmiriamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06107671021769120700noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6213500650791928857.post-28056156659465084962013-02-12T11:24:26.558-08:002013-02-12T11:24:26.558-08:00Another great and thoughtful post, Miriam! I will...Another great and thoughtful post, Miriam! I will reread this and ponder it more later; got a headache right now that is preventing deep thought.<br /><br />I do have some immediate reflections on it, though. I was hoping you'd bring up the LeGuin thing that we talked about, and you did. That seems important. I don't think I've ever read/heard Natalie talk about knowing someone's mind, but I'm interested in that concept and that is one of the things I will give more thought to later.<br /><br />What I wanted to say is that last night when I was writing, I did something that was new terrain for me, especially in autobiographical writing. (This was a short essay, not something for my memoir.) I was writing about a memory I had, a memory that suddenly came in loud and clear and nearly palpable and so visceral that I cried while writing the essay. It wasn't traumatic, just sad. <br /><br />So I wrote the essay and stayed true to the moment I was writing about. But the thing was, what happened after the moment I wrote about left off actually went in a rather different direction in real life. I wondered if I was bound by honesty (and you and I discussed this, what is honesty in memoir, etc., and I probably said it was important to me to be transparent and represent "the truth" as best I could) to describe that, to talk about how things went in this different direction.<br /><br />Ultimately, I decided that it was just as honest to stay true to that moment and not go into "what really happened afterwards." It felt strange to me, but also kind of exciting and powerful.Erin Lyndal Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16874560972765988455noreply@blogger.com