say my name
say my name* when you get to the end of your book titled more and realize half of the poems are about becoming whole
*title is a shout out to Destiny’s Child and their hit song from 1999
This book really did change her name on me. She also made me chop a bunch of poems I’d worked really hard on. (I’ll share a poem about that next week.) The book is better for it, but I did put up a fight (that I lost).
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QUESTION FOR YOU WRITER PEOPLE: Have you ever had a book that had a mind of her own and changed directions on you? Tell me about it!
Every time I write anything, the book (or whatever) surprises me. My first novel, Trees in the Pavement, ended up having a plot, for one thing! I wasn't sure when I started. I just started writing about a fictional little refugee girl after having worked for five years with refugees in the UK. From the first chapter she had a mind of her own, and her story kind of wrote itself.
When I wrote Favored One, the novel about Miryam the mother of Yeshua, I was surprised and satisfied with how it ended...I wasn't sure how I'd wrap up a story about her when she kind of disappears from the record after the resurrection.
And the little short-story I impromptu'd during Winter Solace, which I posted here Tuesday night, was not *anything* I anticipated. Not one part of it. https://open.substack.com/pub/jennwith2ns/p/when-jesus-goes-indoors?r=1eou4q&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
You didn't lose, friend - I'm sure it was a win-win!