Comments on: An Open Letter to My Future Writer Self https://booksbywomen.org/an-open-letter-to-my-future-writer-self-amy-impellizzeri/ Wed, 12 Sep 2018 18:12:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 By: Angela Noel https://booksbywomen.org/an-open-letter-to-my-future-writer-self-amy-impellizzeri/#comment-49499 Wed, 12 Sep 2018 18:12:59 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=23645#comment-49499 This letter is timeless. I feel as if any writer, anywhere in his or her career can relate to the idea that fiction is a kind of truth. Period.

]]> By: Amy Impellizzeri https://booksbywomen.org/an-open-letter-to-my-future-writer-self-amy-impellizzeri/#comment-49424 Fri, 27 Jul 2018 11:13:28 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=23645#comment-49424 In reply to Maddie Dawson.

Yes! Exactly this! I hope you still have that legal pad 🙂

]]> By: Maddie Dawson https://booksbywomen.org/an-open-letter-to-my-future-writer-self-amy-impellizzeri/#comment-49422 Thu, 26 Jul 2018 17:59:44 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=23645#comment-49422 I can’t tell you how much I love this piece you wrote! It is everything we need to remember…and it’s stunning how easy it is to lose track of why we went into writing in the first place–for the sheer joy and love of it. I wrote my first novel the summer when I was 11, on a yellow legal pad. It was about a girl with 7 brothers and sisters–which was how I learned that you can’t hold all that many characters in your head at one time. By September I’d lost touch with most of them, but I still remember the sheer joy of sitting down to write that book every single day. It is that feeling that I try to remember to come back to, now that I am writing my eighth novel, on deadline, with a contract that dictates when it needs to be finished. Those moments of losing yourself in a story are what makes this life worthwhile. Otherwise, we might as well be doing any old job…so thank you for this lovely piece and the reminder of how special it is that we get to do this!

]]> By: Amy Impellizzeri https://booksbywomen.org/an-open-letter-to-my-future-writer-self-amy-impellizzeri/#comment-49421 Wed, 25 Jul 2018 19:08:02 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=23645#comment-49421 In reply to B. Lynn Goodwin.

Thank you! Congratulations to YOU!

]]> By: B. Lynn Goodwin https://booksbywomen.org/an-open-letter-to-my-future-writer-self-amy-impellizzeri/#comment-49420 Wed, 25 Jul 2018 18:29:05 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=23645#comment-49420 WTG! You have some impressive background and self-appreciation. I am also a National Indie Excellence Award Winner. Great feeling!

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