Jennifer de Guzman 🪲🦋🐝🐞Jan 29 #writerscoffeeclub Describe the saddest moment you've written. Share an excerpt.
This is an excerpt from the project I refer to in the linked #WordWeavers post. I rewrote it more than ten years after the first version, unfortunately informed by the sudden loss of someone young and close to me. When my protagonist screams, "It's too much! Too much!"--that was me, screaming in the parking lot of Target, where I was when I found out.
Jennifer de Guzman 🪲🦋🐝🐞 (@[email protected])
Jan 29 #WordWeavers (cont'd) In 4th grade, my teacher Mr. Crane had us write short stories once a month. He gave me an A with so many pluses that they went to the edge of the page on one about my friends and me becoming invisible. It was called "Where Are We?" His feedback was so helpful. I still remember how he wrote "wonderful!" next to my sentence (in a different story) "Belle sat on her haunches and whimpered." (Belle was Santa Claus's dog.)
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