Comments on: my kitchen, your kitchen http://www.newrambler.net/lisdom/191 Laura Crossett on the LIS domain Fri, 29 Aug 2008 05:53:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: rochelle http://www.newrambler.net/lisdom/191#comment-24011 rochelle Fri, 06 Jul 2007 14:03:57 +0000 http://www.newrambler.net/lisdom/191#comment-24011 I'm so glad you wrote this! Occasionally, someone will ask me when I'm going to start "really" writing. My stock response is "when a few more people have died." Even the fiction I write in my head is heavily informed by my experiences, and I find it hard to write stuff that I know might hurt people. Not in a crazy Augusten Burroughs way, but still, probably stuff that would be construed as TMI. But, voyeur that I am, I'm a big fan of confessional memoir. I don't think I knew you had an MFA. I'm always curious about people who have had that experience. It's a plan that's always in the back of my mind, although at this point, I don't know if I'm near a school that offers such a program. Sometimes I think it might be the only way to force myself to write. How's that for a lack of commitment? I’m so glad you wrote this! Occasionally, someone will ask me when I’m going to start “really” writing. My stock response is “when a few more people have died.” Even the fiction I write in my head is heavily informed by my experiences, and I find it hard to write stuff that I know might hurt people. Not in a crazy Augusten Burroughs way, but still, probably stuff that would be construed as TMI. But, voyeur that I am, I’m a big fan of confessional memoir.

I don’t think I knew you had an MFA. I’m always curious about people who have had that experience. It’s a plan that’s always in the back of my mind, although at this point, I don’t know if I’m near a school that offers such a program. Sometimes I think it might be the only way to force myself to write. How’s that for a lack of commitment?

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