Writing a Memoir

Grant: In your memoir you write a fair amount about writing itself and the experience of getting your story published which I'm sure also led to the book deal eventually. You know sometimes it's frowned upon in memoir to write about that because it's not always part of the central story so I don't know if you can talk about thatyour decision to write about writing and how you saw that as central to the journey you chronicle in your bookYeah for sure it was a choice it was an intentional choice in the first few draftsI actually really didn't discuss it that much we talked about having the essays published and what that meant going you know public on such a large platform  and how