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Getting Real About Time

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Getting Real About Time
DURING the summer of 2022 I attended the Postgraduate Writers’ Conference at the Vermont College of Fine Arts, where I had the good fortune of taking a memoir class with Ira Sukrungruang, the author of six books, including the memoir This Jade World (University of Nebraska Press, 2021). At one point during our residency, Sukrungruang outlined the risks of working on a single draft over the years, how a memoir can lose its fresh point of view, and how overworking a draft could make it less cohesive. His recommendation was to complete our drafts in concentrated bursts of time, about three to six months. I nodded, though I strongly doubted it could ever be possible. My memoir had been simmering for the past six years. While working full time, I…
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