The minute I landed back in Alaska, it was back to hip boots and fish guts. This cultural flipping wasn't easy - especially on top of the post-divorce fighting that was still going on between my parents. But this is why you don't write a memoir at age fourteen.
Leigh NewmanI've managed to create intimacy with people I know, and people that I don't know. The longer things stay inside of us, the more we think they are black or tainted, but they're really not.
Leigh NewmanIt's much harder when you're writing about your life, than when you're writing fiction.
Leigh NewmanI'm pretty much of the Shakespearean school. Dialogue is character. How we speak is who we are.
Leigh Newman