Pip-Life

:: A Letter To The Moment When I Knew It Was Time To Go Home….

April 10, 2011

You might know that I was invited to take part in Women Of Letters on the first of May.  If you don’t that is okay too. It is not like your life revolves around me, right?!  So. Women of Letters is an amazingly great event, featuring really rad ladies reading letters on various subjects.  Marieke Hardy co-curates WoL with Michaela McGuire. You might know Marieke from her columns in The Age or Frankie or from The First Tuesday Book Club or via the series recently aired on the ABC, Laid, which she co-wrote.
I met Marieke when she was about sixteen and we worked together.  We have sporadically kept in contact, and probably see each other more now on social media than we ever did in real life. I am feeling very chuffed that she would ask me to be part of this.  Previous WoL include Jo Walker, Clare Bowditch, Myf Warhurst, Claudia Karven, Fee B-Squared, Angie Hart, Helen Garner and heaps more.  I think that I am very lucky to be amongst such amazingly great company!  Phew!  I hope I do okay!
A Letter To The Moment When I Knew It Was Time To Go Home is the theme for the event I am writing/reading for.  So… I need your help.  What would YOU write about?  I have lots and lots of ideas, and I have been thinking about it for weeks. In the bath. In the car. On the tram. Thinking of letters….  And then I thought it would be really great to talk to you guys about it.  I bet you have lots of ideas too.  What would you write about? Let’s chat about this together and jump-start my piece!
Later on this week I am going to write my letter.  I figure that will give me plenty of time to tweak it or rewrite it if I hate my first draft/idea.  Usually I sit down and start to write and it all kind of comes together pretty quickly.  Then I shift some paragraphs around and spell check it and re-read it once more.  A shift again and then I am done.  I try not to lose too much of the original spirit I wrote with, I suppose.  I don’t like to over work things.  I am going to write a letter about something I have experienced, I think.  I find that it’s easier for me to write about the things I have lived, because it rings true, and you KNOW how I feel about writing from the heart in my own voice.  That is what I like to do the most.  That is what Marieke told me to do, in fact.
So.  How about we get some fresh perspective on this?!   Imagine YOU are writing this letter.  What would YOU write?  You can write it as yourself, or in character or as someone you know or admire (or don’t!)  Why don’t you be a Lady of Letters too?!
If you are so inclined, you can rally and give me moral support : tickets are here!

xx Pip

1 Comment

  • Reply Kitty Boo Boo April 21, 2011 at 8:16 AM

    Yeah it was definitely a defining moment, but being an Army kid you either deal or you don't. It was weird but cool, I left the nest and the nest moved! I'd so love to come and watch you at this event but it's a bit far! Will someone be recording it? Any chance it'll make the net?

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