I like this Posie Graeme-Evans quote about writing from last Saturday’s The Age newspaper: ‘I sit by myself and hear voices in my head . They come out the ends of my fingers whether I want them to or not’. I have one voice in my head which is impatiently yelling, ‘get back to the […]
Memoir: Not Just a Memory
Well, it’s been a very hectic year and I was hoping to have a narrative draft of my memoir by now but it hasn’t happened. And it’s not due to laziness. I was getting up at 5.50 am each weekday to work on the memoir, but one hour a day is not enough to write […]
A Pebble Memory
The memoir is coming along nicely as I’m writing each week day at 7.ooam. The other day I was working on ‘The 1930 Penny’ vignette and decided to google this iconic Australian penny. As soon as I saw a photo of this rare coin it triggered many more memories. Of my time as a ten […]
Whose Memories?
Today I’ve been transcribing an interview for my memoir which I started writing a while ago. I grew up with the person I interviewed and some of her memories of the time I either remember – strongly or vaguely or not at all. Which raises an interesting question. What happens when other people’s memories overlap […]
