I am 16 minutes into this video and so full of gratitude I almost can't breathe. Thank you Kelly and KN Literary Arts for doing it again: delivering precisely what I need, precisely when I need it. I thought I only had one book in me -- the memoir I'm currently trying to get published. Something in Kate's comments about the necessity of reaching the molten core of me...yes....there's another book in there.... I just hit "pause" to 1) write this Comment, and 2) order "Write What You Don't Know." I expect I'll be firmly bound to a second writing regimen by the end of the year. Thank you.
Thank you! I am so glad I saw this! This is invaluable to me because it’s exactly where I am now on my memoir writing journey. I’m in Hay House Writer’s Community and just started my second year in July. I only spoke on our zoom calls once last September and I really heard everything you said to me and now Kate Christensen said something similar. My memoir is Vacation’s Over. We’re Having Grilled Cheese and Tomato Soup How my Mom helped Me Survive Three Traumatic Events Including Living With My Grief After Her Death I know it’s still a work in progress. But you told me that I need to write from my scars, not my wounds. I didn’t completely get what you were saying and was even slightly discouraged. But you were still very supportive and encouraging so i just kept going and plugging along. Over time, I could see the difference between my journaling and writing for me just to work things out and grieve, and my writing that belongs in the memoir to help readers; and basically the stuff they will want to read; not the stuff that’s for ME! I have learned I will never get over or get through the grief of the loss of my Mom. I will just learn to live with it as it ebbs and flows. The incredible part was I let go of all of my guilt over being bed bound in St. Louis the past 6 years so I couldn’t attend her funeral in NY 2 1/2 years ago. I just journaled one day from a guilty and lonely place and wrote over and over again, “I hope my Mom heard me say goodbye. I hope she knows how much I love her. I hope she was proud of me.” I just wrote pages of sentences similar to that and then something happened. My Mom wrote to me. She wrote, “Maureen I heard you. I love you. I am very proud of you. Now stop crying. Make the scrapbook page and sign your name on the back. And write your book.” I called my husband into the room and was shaking. It was such a powerful experience and the song I was thinking about and wrote on my scrapbook page always made me cry hysterically. After this happened, I smiled every time the song came on!! I felt my Mom’s spirit completely. I know I can still talk to her. She is listening and has now answered me twice in journaling; 3 times in dreams. I am at a place now where I can step back from some of the pain and my story flows better because of doing the work like Kate Christensen said here. The song is “How Do I Say Goodbye” by Dean Lewis. The lyrics are, “How do I say goodbye to someone who’s been with me for my whole damn life? You gave me my name and the color of my eyes. I see your face when I look at mine. So how do I how do I say goodbye?“ My Mom and I look exactly alike. I’m her firstborn of her six children which she had in 6 years! But I’ve been doing the work and writing and writing and reshaped my story to the theme of how everything I’ve done throughout my life has been because of my Mom. It’s because of her encouraging me, supporting me, and her example. The stories which support this theme are the stories that are in there. Extraneous stories I have edited out. I’ve added the stories that show this and narrowed my life down to my three traumatic events with rising action up until she passes away and my journey through grief and learning to walk again. I am working hard to submit it in December and doing NaNoWriMo in November to get the rest of it in shape. There are about 35,000 good words now. So adding 50,000 more in November may be a lot. But I know how to shape it and where it needs attention. Thank you again for this video today!! It came exactly when I needed it!! Look forward to our November 9th zoom call. 😊❤️
We're excited to work with you when the time comes! We do have some amazing collaborative writers available if you want to go that route with your book.
@12 minutes: "Write what you don't know." ... Wow, that's flipping the script ... I thought I knew everything - ha - for decades, I was told to write what I know - so I focused only on what I know - I failed to see the colossal world of what I don't know.
@@Lacerated1DJ3 I have hundreds of book manuscripts here - which includes a cookbook with over 100 recipes I created to save my life - because I had a terminal prognosis from over a dozen doctors. I've also written over 1,000 songs, over a dozen musicals - a musical for young children, a musical for tweens and numerous others - I've written one opera, and dozens of other stage shows - including stand-up comedy routines, music reviews and so on - and I've written dozens of screenplays - over a dozen of them should be made into movies - and now with the help of AI, it looks like this will happen - because the AI are currently producing life-like feature films in under three months. My most important books include the history of Earth which is documented - by our ancestors - in hundreds of historic records and in the old literature from the Greeks and Arabs, the Hebrews and Hindus, the Chinese and Japanese and Tartarians, the northern Europeans, Latin Americans and in reports from the Aborigines, the Indigenous, reports from the tribes of Africa and from the People of the First Nations which collectively result in thousands of independent sources that corroborate one another - if only we accept what they tell us and look at the corroborating evidence ... which includes thousands of giant skeletons found on and near the surface of Earth while ancient cities are buried beneath layers of rock and debris. We also have the melted ancient cities and evidence of scorched Earth that corroborate reports in the old literature of advanced tech weaponry used in the wars - the sources tell us who had the weapons, where they got the weapons and who won those wars. The true timeline for those wars is also documented - it's a very different timeline from the timeline lies that are spoon-fed to the dumbed down, drugged up, gullible public.
This is the sweet nectar. Thanks, Kate.
We're so glad you enjoyed it!
She is amazing please bring her back again
Right!? We will definitely look for opportunities to have Kate back.
Thank you so much for sharing this video! As someone who has three 70% completed books, I needed to hear this and feel so inspired to keep going!
You're so welcome. Keep going! You've got this.
This is wildly underrated--massive thanks to both Kelly and Kate for this interview. Extremely enlightening 🙏
We're so glad you enjoyed it!
I am 16 minutes into this video and so full of gratitude I almost can't breathe. Thank you Kelly and KN Literary Arts for doing it again: delivering precisely what I need, precisely when I need it. I thought I only had one book in me -- the memoir I'm currently trying to get published. Something in Kate's comments about the necessity of reaching the molten core of me...yes....there's another book in there.... I just hit "pause" to 1) write this Comment, and 2) order "Write What You Don't Know." I expect I'll be firmly bound to a second writing regimen by the end of the year. Thank you.
Thank you so much for your comment. We're so glad that this video resonated with you and where you're at in your book journey.
This really captures the essence of the craft of writing. Thank you Kelly and Kate!
We're so glad you enjoyed it!
Kelly and Kate (K&K), I loved your analogy of writing with cooking. For me it makes so much sense and helps to understand it so much better.
We're so glad it resonated with you!
Beautiful, inspiring and thought-provoking interview! Thank you both for taking the time to do this.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Absolutely stunning conversation! Working on my first memoir and this is paramount for me to hear!! ❤❤❤ Love to you wonderful ladies 💓
We're so glad it was helpful!
What a masterclass for authentic writing! So raw, real, and supportive, I feel like I've been on a magic carpet ride with you both. Great Gratitude! 😊
Thank you so much for your kind comment. We're so glad this interview resonated with you!
EXCELLENT! This was so helpful. I am inspired to keep going! Many thanks Kelly Notaras, for this generous interview.
We're so glad it inspired you!
Thank you! I am so glad I saw this! This is invaluable to me because it’s exactly where I am now on my memoir writing journey.
I’m in Hay House Writer’s Community and just started my second year in July.
I only spoke on our zoom calls once last September and I really heard everything you said to me and now Kate Christensen said something similar.
My memoir is Vacation’s Over. We’re Having Grilled Cheese and Tomato Soup
How my Mom helped Me Survive Three Traumatic Events Including Living With My Grief After Her Death
I know it’s still a work in progress. But you told me that I need to write from my scars, not my wounds. I didn’t completely get what you were saying and was even slightly discouraged. But you were still very supportive and encouraging so i just kept going and plugging along.
Over time, I could see the difference between my journaling and writing for me just to work things out and grieve, and my writing that belongs in the memoir to help readers; and basically the stuff they will want to read; not the stuff that’s for ME!
I have learned I will never get over or get through the grief of the loss of my Mom. I will just learn to live with it as it ebbs and flows.
The incredible part was I let go of all of my guilt over being bed bound in St. Louis the past 6 years so I couldn’t attend her funeral in NY 2 1/2 years ago.
I just journaled one day from a guilty and lonely place and wrote over and over again, “I hope my Mom heard me say goodbye. I hope she knows how much I love her. I hope she was proud of me.” I just wrote pages of sentences similar to that and then something happened.
My Mom wrote to me. She wrote, “Maureen I heard you. I love you. I am very proud of you. Now stop crying. Make the scrapbook page and sign your name on the back. And write your book.”
I called my husband into the room and was shaking.
It was such a powerful experience and the song I was thinking about and wrote on my scrapbook page always made me cry hysterically. After this happened, I smiled every time the song came on!! I felt my Mom’s spirit completely. I know I can still talk to her. She is listening and has now answered me twice in journaling; 3 times in dreams. I am at a place now where I can step back from some of the pain and my story flows better because of doing the work like Kate Christensen said here.
The song is “How Do I Say Goodbye” by Dean Lewis. The lyrics are, “How do I say goodbye to someone who’s been with me for my whole damn life? You gave me my name and the color of my eyes. I see your face when I look at mine. So how do I how do I say goodbye?“
My Mom and I look exactly alike. I’m her firstborn of her six children which she had in 6 years!
But I’ve been doing the work and writing and writing and reshaped my story to the theme of how everything I’ve done throughout my life has been because of my Mom. It’s because of her encouraging me, supporting me, and her example. The stories which support this theme are the stories that are in there. Extraneous stories I have edited out.
I’ve added the stories that show this and narrowed my life down to my three traumatic events with rising action up until she passes away and my journey through grief and learning to walk again.
I am working hard to submit it in December and doing NaNoWriMo in November to get the rest of it in shape. There are about 35,000 good words now. So adding 50,000 more in November may be a lot. But I know how to shape it and where it needs attention.
Thank you again for this video today!! It came exactly when I needed it!!
Look forward to our November 9th zoom call. 😊❤️
Thank you for sharing your story. We're so glad that this video was exactly what you needed in your writing journey!
Fabulous conversation! So many great writing tips. 🙏
Glad you enjoyed it!
That was an awesome interview! Thank you both.
You're so welcome. We're glad it resonated with you.
VERY HELPFUL!! Thanks
Glad it helped! Thank you for your comment.
Thank you.
You're welcome! Thanks for commenting.
I'm eager to "engage" your firm, but my first draft is still incomplete.
We're excited to work with you when the time comes! We do have some amazing collaborative writers available if you want to go that route with your book.
@12 minutes: "Write what you don't know." ... Wow, that's flipping the script ... I thought I knew everything - ha - for decades, I was told to write what I know - so I focused only on what I know - I failed to see the colossal world of what I don't know.
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I will be looking for that book
@@Lacerated1DJ3 I have hundreds of book manuscripts here - which includes a cookbook with over 100 recipes I created to save my life - because I had a terminal prognosis from over a dozen doctors.
I've also written over 1,000 songs, over a dozen musicals - a musical for young children, a musical for tweens and numerous others - I've written one opera, and dozens of other stage shows - including stand-up comedy routines, music reviews and so on - and I've written dozens of screenplays - over a dozen of them should be made into movies - and now with the help of AI, it looks like this will happen - because the AI are currently producing life-like feature films in under three months.
My most important books include the history of Earth which is documented - by our ancestors - in hundreds of historic records and in the old literature from the Greeks and Arabs, the Hebrews and Hindus, the Chinese and Japanese and Tartarians, the northern Europeans, Latin Americans and in reports from the Aborigines, the Indigenous, reports from the tribes of Africa and from the People of the First Nations which collectively result in thousands of independent sources that corroborate one another - if only we accept what they tell us and look at the corroborating evidence ...
which includes thousands of giant skeletons found on and near the surface of Earth while ancient cities are buried beneath layers of rock and debris.
We also have the melted ancient cities and evidence of scorched Earth that corroborate reports in the old literature of advanced tech weaponry used in the wars - the sources tell us who had the weapons, where they got the weapons and who won those wars.
The true timeline for those wars is also documented - it's a very different timeline from the timeline lies that are spoon-fed to the dumbed down, drugged up, gullible public.