Fond memories of your oceanside abode and the way you quickly set up a new life. Your moving to Long Beach is perhaps germane to your memoir in that it was practice for moving to France.
It is . . . although I grant it may seem a bit incidental. When my first memoir ground to a halt, I couldn’t really understand why. After looking through numerous drafts, notes and diary entries, I realise that it was really more about just a move to a foreign country, but taking stock of my life at 68 and how I wanted to spend whatever was left of it—hopefully a few more decades. Now at 81, I have a perspective that I hope I can bring to this book, one I hop will be of interest to others questioning the various stages of lives third act.
Someone saying writing - or any creativity stops at certain age - sounds like someone making an easy out excuse for their own “lack”. And think of the time we lose when we listen to other people’s opinions. Janice your words are fuel for my fire - you’ve lit a match. Merci beaucoup!
Fond memories of your oceanside abode and the way you quickly set up a new life. Your moving to Long Beach is perhaps germane to your memoir in that it was practice for moving to France.
It is . . . although I grant it may seem a bit incidental. When my first memoir ground to a halt, I couldn’t really understand why. After looking through numerous drafts, notes and diary entries, I realise that it was really more about just a move to a foreign country, but taking stock of my life at 68 and how I wanted to spend whatever was left of it—hopefully a few more decades. Now at 81, I have a perspective that I hope I can bring to this book, one I hop will be of interest to others questioning the various stages of lives third act.
Your story is captivating. Please keep going!
I always love your writing, Janice: it pulls me in immediately.
And the famous author and his comment? F*ck him and ageist nag he rode in on.
You go.
Someone saying writing - or any creativity stops at certain age - sounds like someone making an easy out excuse for their own “lack”. And think of the time we lose when we listen to other people’s opinions. Janice your words are fuel for my fire - you’ve lit a match. Merci beaucoup!