Diary Of Being A Writer Week 51

I need mentoring. I can has grant please!

Tuesday 19th
I am in a holding pattern right now. I am hoping that Beth and Jo can give me some guidance in regards to my Arts South Austalia Grant.
In the meantime, I need to do some editing. I need to keep moving forward.
I have had some ideas for what else needs to be included in the memoir, but I haven’t worked out the details. It feels so unwieldy at the moment. I feel like I don’t have a good grasp of the shape of it and how to get it into some sort of manageable narrative. Hence why I would like some professional guidance. Hence why I am applying for a grant.
Okay so without that I need to keep plugging away. Editing and adding anecdotes and jokes.
I really need to put more jokes in. There are some really unfunny bits ion there at the moment.
I realised the other day that I had kind of wedged my friends into the stories because they were an essential part of me coping with all of the things, but I was doing it because I wanted them to know they were important to me. However, those mentions don’t add to the story or the reader’s enjoyment of the story, so those references need to go. I will have to put them in the acknowledgements. Georgia and I discussed how we both read the acknowledgements at the end of books. It is fascinating to see who helped these authors and what the authors consider important enough to…