Alas, Sophie is more of a Jack Daniels kind. In an age in which women are expected to be high achievers, thirty-six-year-old Sophie Stanton desperately wants to be a good widow a graceful, composed, Jackie Kennedy kind of widow. It's all uphill from here! Then you discover the escalator goes down one more floor to another level of bargain basement junk." You think, This is it: I'm at the bottom now. For me, getting feedback from other writers has been invaluable."The funny thing about rock bottom is there's stuff underneath it. LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA, Gabriel Garcia Marquezĭon’t be afraid to revise again and again–and don’t let rejections stop you from telling your story.A VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD, Jennifer Egan.Who do you like to read? Some of my favorite books and writers are: Since having children and continuing to practice medicine, I’ve kept up the same night owl routine. After the stimulation of interacting with people all day, I loved the escape of writing. I wrote THE DIAGNOSIS OF LOVE mainly at night, when I would come home from the hospital during medical school rotations and then during residency, when I wasn’t on call. I have always found that I write best when I have to carve out the time. I, of course, still managed to get some details wrong. Shutsy shared many amazing stories about her life during the war and generously answered my endless questions.
Then I contacted Women Airforce Service pilots Ms.
I went to a fantastic website, for information. How did you get details about the life of a WASP during WWII? In the newspaper, there was a black-and-white picture of young women pilots in their leather flight jackets in front of a plane.
I had clearly envisioned the beginning in the library, and the end in the hospital, but had no idea about the long stretch of middle until I came across an article about President Obama honoring the Women Airforce Service pilots with Congressional Gold Medals. In 2009, I started writing a novel about sisters from four points of view–Mary, the woman with a secret, and Elyse, the teenager who would save her–along with Jane and Andie, first person narrators who were eventually booted from the story.
Why did you decide to write a story about a Women Airforce Service pilot?
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