Hi Mary! I’m really late to the party here, but I’m looking forward to catching up on the memoir. This is such a great start—no wasted words here. I’m also a sucker for any memoir that weaves together the personal with some thoughtful pop cultural references. I guess the benefit of being late is that now I can binge on some of your work!
Finally got this one from my reading queue and started it. I think it will be fascinating, judging from Part 1. By the way, I really love this movie... Brings tears to my eyes every time...
I'm currently publishing a romcom in serial form on Substack. The female protagonist is a bit like me multiplied x1,000 or more. Or maybe she is what I would like to be. I hope you like the dialogue. Your memoir is a little scary for me. However, I am liking chapter 1.
I came to love romantic comedies late in life. When I was young, I thought their lightness meant they were easy to write, disposable - but I actually now think they are the hardest genre to write in! So many things can go wrong, and to get love right, to create emotion and tears... that's skill. My all time fave is "Groundhog Day".
This is my second time around reading your memoir and I'm seeing new things and appreciating all the more your sense of humour. Thanks for sharing it here with us.
So I'm all in. I started reading it, and plan to read on. Sometimes, you need to have a woman's perspective when it comes to this sort of thing. It will definitely help with my storytelling. If I'm still into this by chapter 10, I'll CROSS-POST you...and that's a promise.
Starting from chapter 1! Fabulous start. I love Harry and Sally. And you are like Carrie from Sex in the City. This is fun! I would love to be a fly on the wall in D’s mind when he read the book!
Mary, I meaningful post for me. Those words, 'I need to live alone,' were perhaps the most devastating in my life. How you were able to find them in your life and relate to all of us is amazing.
Hi Mary! I’m really late to the party here, but I’m looking forward to catching up on the memoir. This is such a great start—no wasted words here. I’m also a sucker for any memoir that weaves together the personal with some thoughtful pop cultural references. I guess the benefit of being late is that now I can binge on some of your work!
Oh, I love this intro! So much happening in such few words. So relatable.
Slipping seamlessly between layers:
"I had been married twenty-one years when D. announced, “I need to live alone.” Oh so Greta Garbo. There was absolutely no noise...."
Wonderful! And a great ending / bridge / pause to a wait-there's-more-future.
Finally got this one from my reading queue and started it. I think it will be fascinating, judging from Part 1. By the way, I really love this movie... Brings tears to my eyes every time...
I'm currently publishing a romcom in serial form on Substack. The female protagonist is a bit like me multiplied x1,000 or more. Or maybe she is what I would like to be. I hope you like the dialogue. Your memoir is a little scary for me. However, I am liking chapter 1.
I came to love romantic comedies late in life. When I was young, I thought their lightness meant they were easy to write, disposable - but I actually now think they are the hardest genre to write in! So many things can go wrong, and to get love right, to create emotion and tears... that's skill. My all time fave is "Groundhog Day".
This is my second time around reading your memoir and I'm seeing new things and appreciating all the more your sense of humour. Thanks for sharing it here with us.
So I'm all in. I started reading it, and plan to read on. Sometimes, you need to have a woman's perspective when it comes to this sort of thing. It will definitely help with my storytelling. If I'm still into this by chapter 10, I'll CROSS-POST you...and that's a promise.
I agree. The hell with Bill Maher.
I enjoyed reading your prologue and first chapter. I am so sorry about D. But you are a fabulous woman and writer. So glad you are writing this.
Great beginning --especially when I agree with the end!
Starting from chapter 1! Fabulous start. I love Harry and Sally. And you are like Carrie from Sex in the City. This is fun! I would love to be a fly on the wall in D’s mind when he read the book!
Mary, I meaningful post for me. Those words, 'I need to live alone,' were perhaps the most devastating in my life. How you were able to find them in your life and relate to all of us is amazing.
Thank you, Bill
Love this, Mary. Crisp and witty!
I want to read more!!!