Comments on: On (Re)Writing Real-Life Tragedy http://booksbywomen.org/on-rewriting-real-life-tragedy-by-kimberly-belle/ Tue, 25 Jun 2019 04:31:09 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 By: On Rewriting Real-Life Tragedy: Part II : Women Writers, Women's Books http://booksbywomen.org/on-rewriting-real-life-tragedy-by-kimberly-belle/#comment-49864 Tue, 25 Jun 2019 04:31:09 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=23375#comment-49864 […] Friday to tell me her husband had beaten her. I’ve written about it plenty, and right here on this very website , so I won’t rehash all the details now, but suffice it to say there was enough drama in her story […]

]]> By: Kimberly Belle http://booksbywomen.org/on-rewriting-real-life-tragedy-by-kimberly-belle/#comment-49423 Fri, 27 Jul 2018 08:36:46 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=23375#comment-49423 Hi Jill, and I’m so sorry to hear about your friend. It’s a learning experience, for sure, and I know now what to watch for in others. For me it took about five years to create enough distance with what happened to use it in one of my stories. I was too close, and still too emotional about it to get there earlier. Best of luck to you and your friend – I’m glad she has you! xo

]]> By: Jill Hannah Anderson http://booksbywomen.org/on-rewriting-real-life-tragedy-by-kimberly-belle/#comment-49410 Sun, 22 Jul 2018 03:41:16 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=23375#comment-49410 Kimberly, This is fantastic and hauntingly similar to a situation I had with my best friend. A different secret, on her part, but still the guilt on my part for not seeing it, helping her out when I could.

I’m hoping some of it shows up in my third book. That’s my plan if I can write and give her the voice she never found.

Good for you, and good for your friend that she persevered!

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