Ooof! I feel this deeply sister. Beautifully put all of it. And yeah, YOU ARE THE ULTIMATE ARTIST. WE ARE. WE MOTHERS. Gah! Love you. And yeah - to have someone else do the typing. Oh and all the cleaning and meal prep and everything else - I'll take that wife too. xoxo
I know this isn't the point of your piece, Ava, but there was an article just this week that suggested Steinbeck (whose work I like greatly) may have used a great deal of a female journalist's diary/journal of interviewing people over many months during the migration of families during the dustbowl. He never gave her credit for using it - but she handed her copious notes to him - and then he wrote for a mad month (less than six for the draft) and had his novel - which he had already written two drafts of and abandoned both. She felt that he stole her work - and she was starting a novel about it herself. This is very similar to a recent reveal that Wallace Stegner stole a woman's unpublished novel - and used many part of it verbatim - to write Angle of Repose.
Ooof! I feel this deeply sister. Beautifully put all of it. And yeah, YOU ARE THE ULTIMATE ARTIST. WE ARE. WE MOTHERS. Gah! Love you. And yeah - to have someone else do the typing. Oh and all the cleaning and meal prep and everything else - I'll take that wife too. xoxo
haha! love you back xx
I loved this so much! I laughed out loud more than twice. I feel like we are friends.
thank you!
I know this isn't the point of your piece, Ava, but there was an article just this week that suggested Steinbeck (whose work I like greatly) may have used a great deal of a female journalist's diary/journal of interviewing people over many months during the migration of families during the dustbowl. He never gave her credit for using it - but she handed her copious notes to him - and then he wrote for a mad month (less than six for the draft) and had his novel - which he had already written two drafts of and abandoned both. She felt that he stole her work - and she was starting a novel about it herself. This is very similar to a recent reveal that Wallace Stegner stole a woman's unpublished novel - and used many part of it verbatim - to write Angle of Repose.
Fascinating
also, unfortunately unsurprising
EXACTLY.