h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Hi,

I've been away from the site for some time and just got around to seeing you made a post on the memoir extract.

It is as you say, 'incomplete', but it was also written as an excercise for a criting circle that I was taking part in on this site before Christmas.

It is also, as you rightly point out, very raw and hard to get to the emotions to tell the story. I have found trying to use backstory in this piece awful. I can write much better. My heart, (no matter how I wanted to try and explore my emotions, which was the intention of the piece) has never trully been in it. I guess that's why it doesn't really work. I will however rewrite the piece as a reflection on what my Mother is like, perhaps that might be an eassier way of tackling the story, thus making it more emotionally detached for myself.

Thanks for your comment.

Gill

I know whereof you speak, as someone once said. It's a tough one

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