Category: Tracy Seeley
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Grace Notes and Self Confidence Tracy Seeley Interview Pt. 5
I love anecdotes that momentarily seem out of the main line of the story because they remind us that the world is a richly interconnected place, thick with story and meaning even over there in the margins.
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Memoir writer on conforming, rewriting, publishing
Small presses, too, though, want to know how your book is like others that have gone before (and gone on to succeed), as well as how it’s a new and exciting, one-of-a-kind thing. It’s a funny kind of challenge to describe your work in both terms. But My Ruby Slippers does belong to a tradition…
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Stretching the Memoir Form, Tracy Seeley Interview, Part 2
The edict to “show, not tell” does a serious disservice to creative nonfiction writers, and to the genre. It’s not the same as fiction, even though it may share many techniques, and it shouldn’t be forced to be fiction made out of “true facts.”
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I Left my Heart In… Kansas? Memoir Review Part 2
Subtly, gently, and almost inevitably, she expands up to another level and asks how Kansas fits into the psychology of the entire nation. Her charter to make peace between these two parts of the country is extremely important to her. Having grown up on the Great Plains and then lived in Connecticut and San Francisco,…
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Another way to write about childhood, memoir review Part 1
Tracy Seeley’s memoir, “Ruby Slippers” reminds me of “Glass Castle” by Jeannette Walls. In both books, restless parents failed to deliver a safe, stable environment. After each author grew up and settled down, she returned to her chaotic beginnings and tried to knit together the pieces by finding the story.
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