Hell fucking yes man. As a longtime fan, I am so excited things are beginning to rekindle for you. We've missed you out here. Wishing you all the best and really, really looking forward to this space.
Estoy flipando. The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao opened my eyes to how I can stay true to my code-switching experience. The English hegemony often makes us feel like the weird ones who need to adapt, but we're the majority, and our stories reflect the world's diversity. Mil gracias por coming to Substack.
Thanks for your honesty. I wrote one book during Covid and it was rejected by pretty much everyone. I've barely written at all since. I finally have a baby concept and I've been making room to nurture it. This stack has come at the right time for me. (Also, The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao hit me like a brick.)
Thank you so much for sharing insight to your journey with your novel, for your transparency and vulnerability. (And you got me cracking up as well, of course!) 😂
Reading about your trials and tribulations with this novel, helped give me perspective and reminded me to give not be so hard on myself re: my own project, a memoir (on early motherhood, loss, and madness), now six years in the making, and it’s still a very rough draft in long hand in composition notebooks. (sidenote: as I was reading this article, I listened to the soundtrack, you mentioned, great stuff!, and I think I might listen to it the next time I write, as it feels like a good fit, as I begin to write some of the darkest, hardest scenes.)
Your sharing here is a gift to so many of us. Really appreciate you.
Thank you for sharing insight to your journey so far with this novel and being so transparent and vulnerable. (You also had me cracking up, of course!) 😂
Hearing about your trials and tribulations helped me maintain perspective and give myself a break re: my own project, a memoir, some six years in the making, and most of it is only, still, super drafty in longhand in composition notebooks.
You being here and sharing like this is such a gift to so many of us.
Hell fucking yes man. As a longtime fan, I am so excited things are beginning to rekindle for you. We've missed you out here. Wishing you all the best and really, really looking forward to this space.
🙏 🙏 🙏
Estoy flipando. The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao opened my eyes to how I can stay true to my code-switching experience. The English hegemony often makes us feel like the weird ones who need to adapt, but we're the majority, and our stories reflect the world's diversity. Mil gracias por coming to Substack.
Thanks for your honesty. I wrote one book during Covid and it was rejected by pretty much everyone. I've barely written at all since. I finally have a baby concept and I've been making room to nurture it. This stack has come at the right time for me. (Also, The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao hit me like a brick.)
I'm nearing the end of my historical mystery, looking for ways to build to its reveals, also searching for escapes from my procrastinating habits.
Thank you so much for sharing insight to your journey with your novel, for your transparency and vulnerability. (And you got me cracking up as well, of course!) 😂
Reading about your trials and tribulations with this novel, helped give me perspective and reminded me to give not be so hard on myself re: my own project, a memoir (on early motherhood, loss, and madness), now six years in the making, and it’s still a very rough draft in long hand in composition notebooks. (sidenote: as I was reading this article, I listened to the soundtrack, you mentioned, great stuff!, and I think I might listen to it the next time I write, as it feels like a good fit, as I begin to write some of the darkest, hardest scenes.)
Your sharing here is a gift to so many of us. Really appreciate you.
Thank you for sharing insight to your journey so far with this novel and being so transparent and vulnerable. (You also had me cracking up, of course!) 😂
Hearing about your trials and tribulations helped me maintain perspective and give myself a break re: my own project, a memoir, some six years in the making, and most of it is only, still, super drafty in longhand in composition notebooks.
You being here and sharing like this is such a gift to so many of us.