not writing about my dead mother

Friday, July 6, 2012

Ideally, this would be a blank page.

But no. I am still, fourteen years after the lady’s death, putting the words “my mother” into sentences. So many sentences.

Thus, here is the essay collection-in-progress I’m calling NOT WRITING ABOUT MY DEAD MOTHER.

Please read these entries with caution. They are intense and disturbing.

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  1. Why I’m Not Writing About My Dead Mother
  2. Not Writing A Personal Essay
  3. Why I Am Definitely Not Writing About What I’m Not Writing About
  4. A Partial List of Things I’ve Written About My Dead Mother
  5. Hazardous Material
  6. Not Employing A Metaphor
  7. Friday, July 6, 2012
  8. Spoiler: Death
  9. A Non-Comprehensive List of Things I Tried, Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part Four
  10. The B Story is About the Character’s Secondary Goal, And it Provides More Opportunities to Expand on the Story’s Themes
  11. I have now written more than 10,000 words about not writing about my mother’s death
  12. Black Saturday
  13. The Mother of My Mother is Her Enemy
  14. The Monotonous, Grinding Mechanics of Long-Term Talk Therapy: A Partial Summary, Part One and Part Two
  15. “My mother is dead, again.”