Guest Blogger: Looking At My Memoir with Fresh Eyes

My second draft is less daunting Let a first draft be a first draft.

At age 54, I wrote the first 56,500 words of the first draft of my Showbiz Survival Memoir.

It was cathartic getting the first draft up and out of me. Honestly, it was a bit grueling though, — emotionally and even physically — to relive some of the most painful times in my life.

Writing about my violent ex-husband triggered so much anxiety that I put it all aside for a while to let it ‘simmer’ on the back burner. Even thou...