Hi, writers,
Twenty-five years
ago, WriteByNighter Dana Frank started writing a fictionalized account of events from her life that had happened nearly another twenty-five years earlier.
In January, she published that
novel.
This week on the blog, Dana shares with us her experiences of publishing The Moon Can Tell after twenty-five years of stopping and starting and nearly fifty years of processing memories.
"I
remembered as a young girl finding a baby cemetery, unkempt and unvisited," Dana writes.
"I wasn't conscious of the attendant feelings I might have had then, but as I wrote it ... the feelings
surfaced."
The process wasn't always easy, and Dana takes us through some lengthy hiatuses and various emotional highs and lows.
"I think my vulnerability is the soft stuff from which I create," she tells us. Though, as so many of us have learned, "Spading that ground can be painful."
But she did it, and we couldn't be happier for her, not to mention grateful for the opportunity to have helped her along the way.
Check it out now, and don't forget to share your own thoughts, questions, and/or experiences in the comments!
