Ask the Author: Paria Hassouri
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Paria Hassouri
I'll sit and journal...notebook and pen instead of sitting behind my laptop and opening an essay I'm working on. Journaling and running, early in the morning for both, are what work best.
Paria Hassouri
I think we all want to be seen for who we are and to be heard. When someone reads your writing, you've been seen--you've been heard.
Paria Hassouri
Listen to Anne Lamott... Take it bird by bird... start with your shittiest first draft. If you don't start writing, you'll never write.
Paria Hassouri
Right now, I'm just journaling and writing down some stories from my past. We'll see what's next.
Paria Hassouri
Most of my ideas come to me while I'm out running. I'll come home and scribble down what I thought about during my run, and then later I sit with it and see if there is more to explore.
Paria Hassouri
I'd been wanting to write a book for a few years, but I had no idea where I would start or end or how I would structure it. Once my daughter came out as trans, I started writing some personal essays on our experience, and realized that weaving our stories together was the best way to structure my memoir.
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