This week the series is memory.
Memory is an obvious necessity for any memoir, but it takes on a particular function in my story.
Memory, and its enemies denial and forgetting, is at the root of what my story is about–discovering what has been denied and repressed.
Following the book architecture method, I wrote a sentence about the role of memory in Scrap:
The protagonist’s memory and curiosity are irritants and counterpoint to the father’s secrets and the mother’s denials until the father’s memories are released and the central secret revealed.
To complement the discoveries my protagonist makes, in some scenes I am experimenting with a style that shows the process of memory recovery.
