Here’s why I've decided to change it. Also, I dabbled in some online digital art and used AI to help me come up with some book cover ideas. Some are totally bizarre.
This is a great exercise to help get inspiration flowing again.
I couldn’t help but think that since most of your memoir is exploring childhood experiences that engaging your senses (from things you ate, heard, saw) could help open some other avenues up. For me, I have a short story that’s been “in progress” for a while now and whenever I touch back in with it, I listen to a spotify playlist of songs I listened to while in this particular season of life. It’s like I’m right back in that cold Colorado basement, dreaming of a life in Boston and trying to muster up the courage to take a big job with a big company in a big city.
Anyways. I would also encourage you to consider these sensory explorations as a way to add “felt context” to the stories you’re telling in your memory. 🧡
What a cool idea. Thanks for giving us insight to your process and I may try it for my own!
This is a great exercise to help get inspiration flowing again.
I couldn’t help but think that since most of your memoir is exploring childhood experiences that engaging your senses (from things you ate, heard, saw) could help open some other avenues up. For me, I have a short story that’s been “in progress” for a while now and whenever I touch back in with it, I listen to a spotify playlist of songs I listened to while in this particular season of life. It’s like I’m right back in that cold Colorado basement, dreaming of a life in Boston and trying to muster up the courage to take a big job with a big company in a big city.
Anyways. I would also encourage you to consider these sensory explorations as a way to add “felt context” to the stories you’re telling in your memory. 🧡