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18.31: Getting Personal: Mining Your Life for Themes

Writing Excuses

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The Importance of Balance in Storytelling

When we talk about mining, you're getting personal and mining your own life. Your own life is made of more than trauma. You can mine the happy stuff. Like every romantic relationship that I write is in some aspect based on my relationship with my husband. My picture book, Molly on the Moon, actually I guess this is a trauma, but is based on a real life thing that happened with me and my brother where he took my stuffed lamb when I was like five.

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