Google Gets Me

By Sonya Ewan

I believe we should not ignore or dismiss our fears of the writing, but, rather, befriend those fears. – Jeannine Ouellette

I counted twice. Exactly seventy-eight times, my developmental editor had suggested I write more on how I felt about events in my memoir. That process—delving deeper into repressed and unexpressed emotions and coaxing them forth with a promise of potential book success and the bonus of greater emotional maturity—took me six-and-a-half, early-pandemi...