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Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are" is true enough, but I'd know you better if you told me what you reread.~~François Mauriac
When you reread a classic you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before.~~Clifton Fadiman
If a book told you something when you were fifteen, it will tell it to you again when you're fifty, though you may understand it so differently that it seems you're reading a whole new book.~~Ursula Le Guin
For me, reading and rereading are an everlasting apprenticeship.~~John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed
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I'm working on my memoir. So, starting a month ago, I went back to the beginning of my posting here at WDC to reread every single thing I'd written. That is over 1100 pieces in my port. But, as much of it was biographical in nature, it was a great source of things to use, a super reminder of things long forgotten, and dumped me into the deep end of happy, sad, and horrific times.
So many pieces, it was as if I were reading something new for the first time as I did not remember writing it. The hows of how I'd written them. The whys of why I'd chosen to do so in whatever manner I did. It was illuminating! More, it was fun. And, to be honest, a bit surprising. Some of the: I wrote that? Wow! Some of: I wrote that? What was I thinking? I also hadn't realized just how much I've written since 2005! It was a LOT to wade through.
Granted, I've rewritten some of it, either just revising or bringing material up to date. But it is interesting to see my progression as a writer over the past nineteen years. From the days when I was terrified of writing dialog. Through the varying phases of all poetry or all short stories. The years I was prolific, the years when I wrote next to nothing. And now, to cull out what I should and shouldn't, will or won't, include.
It is quite the endeavor to take a body of writing and have it be the 'this is me' of all of it. Intimidating to say the least. Plus the new writing to link it all together in a way that makes sense.
I'm allllllmost done. Of course, I've said that the last three days in a row. I keep thinking of things. And then it is the 'where should I add it' or, after spending hours writing something new, if I need it at all. I've tossed things several times now as I would realize I'd already written that 'story' or said it differently.
I honestly did not know what I was setting myself up for! My emotions have run the gamut. I've laughed. I've cried. I've shaken my head. Bottom line? I'm proud of what I have put together. I'm proud of the way it is designed. Although that is when I'm not stressing over the hows and whys!
But if nothing ever comes of this, I am still so, so, SO glad I have done it! I can see clearly how far I've come on numerous levels. How I've changed and grown over the years. How my perspectives have morphed. For those reasons alone, this has been quite the experience.
And something that even if one isn't thinking memoir or anthology, I seriously encourage everyone to do. You might surprise the heck out of yourself!
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