{"id":158,"date":"2020-03-28T20:56:03","date_gmt":"2020-03-28T20:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/taylorgtower.com\/blog\/?p=158"},"modified":"2020-03-28T20:58:17","modified_gmt":"2020-03-28T20:58:17","slug":"shelly-taylor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taylorgtower.com\/blog\/shelly-taylor\/","title":{"rendered":"Shelly & Taylor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Me (left) and my mom at about the same age, between 8 and 10.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I’ve been trying to write a memoir for about six years. When I say trying, I mean I’ve been tossing the idea around in my mind, writing outlines, gathering research, interviewing family members, and fruitlessly trying to combine my existing essays into something of a book-length thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I started getting really discouraged and felt like I would forever be spinning my wheels. Then I saw a tutorial on mini-zines from one of my favorite writers-who-draw, Austin Kleon<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He puts little zines in his son’s lunch box every day, which I think is the absolute best thing ever. These posts were incredibly popular and people were asking how to make them so he posted a tutorial<\/a> from the book Whatcha Mean, What’s a Zine? <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I couldn’t believe how quickly the ideas came once I folded my first mini-zine. In my memoir, I wanted to juxtapose the childhoods of myself and my mom but I was getting overwhelmed with the amount of material I had gathered over the years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Having a six-page mini-zine made it so much easier to select anecdotes to share. I pumped out three issues in no time:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I have a bunch more ideas and am grateful for this shot of inspiration to reawaken my creativity and remind me why I love telling stories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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