Wow. Haven’t written here in a long time. Single Working Women’s Week is upon us again. Have you been treasuring your single women friends? Now’s your chance – Single Working Women’s Week 2023 is in progress! It started Sunday, July 30 and goes through August 5.
Here’s a post I started during last year’s Single Working Women’s Week and, like the memoir/cookbook itself, it feels a bit lost.
“Do you ever find yourself wrestling with some important question in your life – and watch yourself flail around, unable to find the right solution? I have been trying to write my memoir/cookbook for nearly 13 years (stop, start, stop). Have created lots of material, but have not been able to decide how to present it all. I don’t want categories like “Meat” “Vegetables” etc. because that doesn’t honor the memoir/stories. My original working title was “17 Ways to Eat Your Way to Happiness,” so I thought I’d succeeded at last when I decided to divide the material by feelings. Admiration. Aesthetic appreciation. Fear, Satisfaction, etc.
“But one of my beta readers told me in no uncertain terms to get rid of those. So as I was designing the cover I had to fight my brain over the words I would use to describe my book(s) unifying theme. As of today, I’m trying out a time-centered approach, dividing the books by early, middle and why-the-hell-did-the-term-“golden”-ever-get-applied-to-these years.”
But that way of chunking the material doesn’t feel right either. Writing life stories is cathartic. It’s freeing. It’s often of interest to those who know us well. I know there’s some magic in here waiting to be observed and honored. My heart and arms are open. Come on, magic!
Have a wonderful SWWWeek. Be kind to all your single women friends. And to yourself.