Ask the Author: Laura Zinn Fromm
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Laura Zinn Fromm
The best thing about being a writer? So many “best things!” Maybe the absolute best thing about being is a writer is knowing you have a place to put your observations, anxieties, hopes, obsessions, fantasies, fears and yearnings, and knowing you might be able to make something healing, helpful and possibly beautiful out of disturbing, raw material. Also, if you’re a writer, people accept the fact that you might be adrift in your own world.
Laura Zinn Fromm
Elizabeth Strout’s novel Anything is Possible, Mary Oliver’s book of essays, Upstream, Sheryl Sandberg’s Plan B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy.
Laura Zinn Fromm
I jot down notes and don’t try to make sense of them. I write down dreams, and again don’t try to make sense of them. I meditate and write down whatever flies through my head after the meditation. I read poetry by Sharon Olds, Louise Gluck, Mary Oliver, read Vogue, see a lot of movies and hope that something eventually will get unstuck.
Laura Zinn Fromm
Notes for a new book, which at the moment are very vague and if there is a plan, it is only apparent to my unconscious!
Laura Zinn Fromm
Write every day, whether you feel like it or not. Keep a log at your writing space. Check in with your log and keep track of how long you spend writing. Those minutes add up. Always, keep a notebook with you or start a file of notes in your phone. Great ideas, phrases and sentences fly into your head all the time. You want to be able to catch and remember them and that only happens if you write them down.
Laura Zinn Fromm
I began writing this book when a cousin I hand’t seen in 25 years reached out to me after my father passed away. This cousin had a fascinating story to tell and there was good reason why she had disappeared off the face of the earth. Our correspondence and the intriguing family history she revealed jump-started this book.
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