Memoir is a unique opportunity to revisit yourself. I don't mean by memory. I mean in the revision process. You don't just write a chapter and that's it. You must constantly return to it. You must dote on it. And even if it's saying something ugly about who you are, you have to find the poetry in it. You have to find the poetry in yourself.
I'm a semi-failed writer, but I'm a capital-F Failed musician. - Joshua Mohr
I'm a semi-failed writer, but I'm a capital-F Failed musician.
- Joshua Mohr
My tunnel vision allows me to have a longer work day than most writers. I'm thankful for that. - Joshua Mohr
My tunnel vision allows me to have a longer work day than most writers. I'm thankful for that.
Yes, things happened to me - brutal things - but I'm not going to give them so much clout by dwelling on them, empowering them to haunt my heart year… - Joshua Mohr
Yes, things happened to me - brutal things - but I'm not going to give them so much clout by dwelling on them, empowering them to haunt my heart year…
Hughes' debut novel, At Dawn, follows a former All-American wrestler, and is there any better metaphor for contemporary American life? We're all wres… - Joshua Mohr
Hughes' debut novel, At Dawn, follows a former All-American wrestler, and is there any better metaphor for contemporary American life? We're all wres…
I always feel that as the author, once I know what a character is ashamed of, then I can go about making her truthful on the page. - Joshua Mohr
I always feel that as the author, once I know what a character is ashamed of, then I can go about making her truthful on the page.
I just thought it was important that people knew right from the jump that I've got problems. But in all seriousness, that's a huge part of my writing… - Joshua Mohr
I just thought it was important that people knew right from the jump that I've got problems. But in all seriousness, that's a huge part of my writing…
It's a beautiful aspect of narrative construction, hunting for the right images and metaphors to render our character's hearts/minds/souls as though … - Joshua Mohr
It's a beautiful aspect of narrative construction, hunting for the right images and metaphors to render our character's hearts/minds/souls as though …
For the book to succeed, it has to have equal parts ugliness and beauty, counterpoints adding up to emotional complexity. To me, there's a dignity in… - Joshua Mohr
For the book to succeed, it has to have equal parts ugliness and beauty, counterpoints adding up to emotional complexity. To me, there's a dignity in…
I don't think escaping is necessarily a problem, but we can get addicted to almost anything. If you're craving being in this other reality and you do… - Joshua Mohr
I don't think escaping is necessarily a problem, but we can get addicted to almost anything. If you're craving being in this other reality and you do…
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