My writing partner and I are collaborating on a memoir project but we're realizing we remember the same events completely differently and our written accounts conflict. We're stuck between honoring both perspectives and creating something coherent, and the process is straining our friendship as we question each other's memories.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two writers confront the unsettling reality that external memory through writing reveals the subjective nature of all remembrance.
“Where Are You with Writing and the externalization of memory?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.