errantember

When I think of writing, I think most often of the result, and of the reader, rather than myself. However, in this Bill Moyers interview, Maxine Hong Kingston, best known as author of The Woman Warrior, reveals how her experiences working with veterans demonstrate the profound transformative power of writing on the author's psyche. Watching thing has gotten me to wonder what beneficial effects I might experience taking the pen to my inner demons, and how the technique might help my father, who had the misfortune to grow up in Nazi Germany. Definitely highly relevant not only to writers, but to anyone being haunted by past experiences they'd like to purge.