so-soIf you write about your past - traumas and all - this book would be a great inspiration.
Writing can be a great catharsis.
dabbe I love your typewriter note holder! 🤩🤩🤩 8mo
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Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative | 
so-soIf you write about your past - traumas and all - this book would be a great inspiration.
Writing can be a great catharsis.
pickA short audiobook in which Febos encourages writing students to focus on “their truth” and to disregard the words of critics who diminish female experiences in writing. Though I was not the audience for this audiobook, I still gained valuable perspectives that I hadn‘t considered as a person who often consumes memoirs. Would be an excellent read for those considering writing a memoir, which isn‘t me at this point.
pickThis was good! Not what I expected. But honest and raw at times. She mines her life and her reflections so beautifully
Books about writing are always a risk for me, and I‘m happy to say this was a worthy risk. Melissa weaves personal stories and her experiences as a writer together seamlessly. The book is conversational about writing, with stories of an exercise taught to a group of students for example, rather than preachy or a master class in book form. A plus for me. Looking forward to reading more from this author including her first memoir!
pickI continue to deeply admire Melissa Febos: her beautifully crafted writing, rigorous feminist intellectual work, and her commitment to delving into topics others avoid: writing sex scenes, memoir as a feminized form, her own mistakes / growth as a writer. I suspect I would have gotten a bit more out of this if I was a creative writer myself instead of a reader, but even still a lot of her discussions resonated with me from a readerly perspective.
pick5☆A dynamite read mixing memoir and the subject of writing. Febos is an auto read author for me, I enjoy everything she writes and BODY WORK was phenomenal! Febos lays out the art of writing intimately, of bodies, and trauma so smartly. An absolute treasure, I swallowed this book whole! Highly reccomend, it is a fantastic resource on writing. #bookreview
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Finally nice enough weather for some lunch break reading outside!
