You also get really good at hearing not only what’s been said, but also the undertones.Ī lot of times writing for me feels like I’m watching a movie, so I just sit back and listen. You develop a good ear for dialog when you’re always monitoring what’s going on around you. I was always watching my mother for signs of what mood she was in, so I became a very quiet child. I’d start thinking about a scenario as I fell asleep, and then when I woke up, I’d just continue the story in my head where I left off. With my mother being an alcoholic, I would go inside my head a lot and make up stories. I’ve just recently been studying memoir writing under Kerry Cohen, who wrote, Loose Girl: a memoir of promiscuity.
In fact, I moved around so much growing up that I barely graduated from high school. I really feel that I’m just sort of the every woman. It was important to me that my writing was accessible. “I wanted people to forget they were reading a memoir, and instead feel themselves experiencing my life with me. Jonna Ivin, author of the ebook memoir, Will Love for Crumbs Vancouver, Washington, USA:
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