Comments on: December http://www.lauriejunkins.com/2009/12/december/ the writing blog of Laurie Junkins Thu, 17 Jun 2010 10:11:23 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: Kristine Kelley http://www.lauriejunkins.com/2009/12/december/comment-page-1/#comment-478 Kristine Kelley Sat, 02 Jan 2010 06:44:05 +0000 http://www.lauriejunkins.com/?p=193#comment-478 i just wanted to chime in about that old blog. I started reading toward the end of your time on the island but was so hooked by your writing style that I scrolled back to the beginning and read the whole thing from beginning to end. I still remember the gripping, compelling suspense I felt over events you described. It wasn't so much what was happening but more the details you chose to include, the natural voice you used to tell the story and, of course, your wit. I think I even emailed you way back then to say I thought you should just print and publish the blog! While I rarely post, I just wanted to say I still love your writing and if a memoir ever comes out, I'll be first in line to buy it. I look forward to reading more of your unique narrative voice. You are a treat! i just wanted to chime in about that old blog. I started reading toward the end of your time on the island but was so hooked by your writing style that I scrolled back to the beginning and read the whole thing from beginning to end. I still remember the gripping, compelling suspense I felt over events you described. It wasn’t so much what was happening but more the details you chose to include, the natural voice you used to tell the story and, of course, your wit. I think I even emailed you way back then to say I thought you should just print and publish the blog! While I rarely post, I just wanted to say I still love your writing and if a memoir ever comes out, I’ll be first in line to buy it. I look forward to reading more of your unique narrative voice. You are a treat!

]]> By: Kelly Davio http://www.lauriejunkins.com/2009/12/december/comment-page-1/#comment-465 Kelly Davio Fri, 11 Dec 2009 21:09:08 +0000 http://www.lauriejunkins.com/?p=193#comment-465 I recently read Fanny Howe's new memoir/essay collection The Winter Sun, and she claims that trauma has no true voice. That as soon as you write the trauma down, it becomes fiction and story and somehow inauthentic. When she writes about deeply hideous things that happened in her life, she writes them so plainly and in such bare language that they get you at the gut. It was an interesting approach I'd never seen before. I don't envy your having to figure out how to approach this. But if anybody can write with good gallows humor, it's you! I recently read Fanny Howe’s new memoir/essay collection The Winter Sun, and she claims that trauma has no true voice. That as soon as you write the trauma down, it becomes fiction and story and somehow inauthentic. When she writes about deeply hideous things that happened in her life, she writes them so plainly and in such bare language that they get you at the gut. It was an interesting approach I’d never seen before.

I don’t envy your having to figure out how to approach this. But if anybody can write with good gallows humor, it’s you!

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