Author's Notes
After working for over a year on my manuscript, I finally felt ready and invested in a lovely brilliant woman named Victoria to edit my book. She spent half a year working on it. When she returned it to me, she had not only rearranged the architecture of the book making it chronological, but had also rewritten many sentences and ironed out my manuscript with smoother transitions and clarifying details. She is a far better writer than I am, but after reading and rereading her updates, I opted to return to my jarring and jagged style of writing.
During my life, I have thrown myself into one experience after another, lacking smooth transitions that would have allowed for easier integration. My raw and rough style of writing better reflects how I have lived. My life has been jarring and jagged so it would make sense that my style of writing reflects the same.
My book is a process or a journey of discovery. I want my readers to join me on that path without knowing what is to come, just as I have lived, and as my patient, friend and most prized reader said, “. . . Trying, sometimes struggling—beautifully, awkwardly, sometimes providentially successfully, sometimes gloriously unsuccessfully—to feel out where the path of life is taking” me.
During my life, I have thrown myself into one experience after another, lacking smooth transitions that would have allowed for easier integration. My raw and rough style of writing better reflects how I have lived. My life has been jarring and jagged so it would make sense that my style of writing reflects the same.
My book is a process or a journey of discovery. I want my readers to join me on that path without knowing what is to come, just as I have lived, and as my patient, friend and most prized reader said, “. . . Trying, sometimes struggling—beautifully, awkwardly, sometimes providentially successfully, sometimes gloriously unsuccessfully—to feel out where the path of life is taking” me.