Ask the Author: Greg Archer
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Greg Archer
My next book, Press One For More Options. It's a memoir that explores my exploration of "Home"—what is is; where is it; why do we all need it and crave it?
Greg Archer
Write. If you feel a pull toward something and may be hesitant to write, just allow yourself to feel uncomfortable and just explore where the writing takes you. Oftentimes, I have found that my urgings to write are like knocks on the door. I may always know that I can open it; or that I will open it, but I find myself curiously amused by what I find WHEN I open it. We have to be willing to step into a kind of unknown sometimes...
Greg Archer
Being able to express yourself and share stories; and to tap into that creative source and work with it and have it work with you in all that fine-tuning processes.
Greg Archer
I take a notepad or get on the computer and just write, write, write—whatever. Several pages of "Whatever" —and I allow it to be nonsense in the sense that I think it's nonsense. I do this to get whatever is in my head —out on the page; to clear the vessel; to make room for the real work to come through.
Greg Archer
So many things actually—from intergenerational trauma to the overlooked "Holocaust" of the 1940s. But I think it's that history nearly overlooked the spirit, the will, the valiant grace of nearly 2 million Polish people who were deported by Stalin and sent to slave labor in Siberia in 1940. And that with 2015 being the 75th anniversary of that marker, the time is ripe to shed light on this chapter of time.
Greg Archer
Actually, I felt as if the book was haunting me and hunting "me"—or, I should say, my Polish family's past was hunting me, asking me to write about it/ them, and uncover the under-reported parts of these remarkable Polish people that history nearly forgot.
Greg Archer
I was always intrigued with my Polish family's story and when I got a distinct sign to write about it, everything changed.
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