Ask the Author: Isidra Mencos
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Isidra Mencos
The best way for me if I am in a dry spell is to get up early and sit down before doing anything else (well, perhaps brew a cup of coffee, but no shower, no reading the paper or checking email and social media.) When you are still half asleep your trolls have not had the time to rear their ugly head and you write more easily. It may not be perfect, but it gets words on the page that you can edit later. You can't edit a blank page.
Isidra Mencos
I firmly believe that stories decipher and heal myself and others.
Isidra Mencos
Write consistently and value more the process than the result. The writing life can be arduous, solitary, and papered in rejections. You have to develop a thick skin and believe that you have something of value to say, so you can weather all the difficult moments.
Isidra Mencos
I'm working on a collection of personal essays about the many selves and things we leave behind as we evolve; and I plan to write the continuation of my memoir, which will take the story from the moment I emigrated from Spain to the U.S. in 1992 and deal with the cultural shock, among other things.
Isidra Mencos
The key part is to sit down to write consistently even when you're not inspired. I find that's when ideas will pop in my head at other times of the day: during meditation, in the shower, in the middle of the night...
Isidra Mencos
I've always wanted to understand why I had so many self-destructive behaviors in my 20s, and how the enormous change my generation lived in Spain (transition from dictatorship to democracy) affected us. I wrote this memoir to answer both questions.
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