{"id":976,"date":"2019-06-08T17:19:33","date_gmt":"2019-06-08T16:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.HilaryMunro.com\/?p=976"},"modified":"2019-06-10T16:07:28","modified_gmt":"2019-06-10T15:07:28","slug":"my-first-meeting-with-mentor-claire-wingfield-go-back-to-the-beginning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.HilaryMunro.com\/?p=976","title":{"rendered":"Going back to the beginning and setting the first milestone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The mentorship starts. Before the meeting we chose these two comparative books to the memoir The Seedsman\u2019s Daughter<\/em> that I am writing. Claire gave me the brief to read the books and consider their structure within the context of narrative non-fiction \u2013 even though Heat and Dust<\/em>‘s genre is fiction, it is written as if narrative non-fiction. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Both books share the same problems as I have, that the source material is mainly in letter, diary and photographic form with a general theme of fragility of memory. It’s a universal problem in this genre. Stories need dialogue to drive the story forward and narrative non-fiction should\/is factual. As fiction, Jhabvala’s could freely use imagined scenes and dialogue to move the story forward. Beard invented dialogue and was upfront about it \u2013 \u2018though I\u2019m inventing her words after all this time\u2019 (p10). I liked this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Memoir in particular moves from the narrator to the protagonist and back, and this has to be handled so the readers don’t get confused and turned off. The mechanism in these two books was not revolutionary, symbols, new chapters and white space, but it was well done \u2013 especially in Heat and Dust<\/em>, which is the reason why I chose this book to study. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Commitment for the next meeting and deadlines <\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Writing a strapline for the book \u2013 that’s the one that’s short enough to explain the book as the lift door is closing;<\/li>
  2. The book outline for feedback and discussion. Deadline mid June for feedback, <\/li>
  3. Based on the feedback, the first 20,000 words by mid July for a meeting at end July. <\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

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