I am camera

By Martinski

Ripples

I used to get shots like this by pointing my camera at the river. I called them, “There’s Gold in the River.” Now I see it can work with the canal as well as long as you have a wee breeze and some bright light. The trade secret is to ramp up the contrast a bit.  (I didn’t tell you that. How could I? It’s a secret.)
    I’ve made a timely discovery. I’ve been writing what I thought was a memoir, but it turns out to be more of an autobiography. Today I read that a memoir is “an autobiography without the boring bits,” and that you should “approach it as if it were a novel.” Why does this matter? It matters because I’m going to enter the result for a memoir award. So I’ve had to put the 30,000 words I’ve written to the side and start again. It’s a bit like tearing up a jigsaw and re-forming it in a more abstract way. Am I downhearted? Not at all. If you don’t learn new things you will never get anywhere. I have until the end of September to submit it, so there is no panic.

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