00:00That's an inventive way to do things. Sounds like an interesting narrative already. How did you balance, or rather, excuse me, how do you navigate the emotional labor of writing about trauma, memory, and family rupture?
00:11Yeah, I think this is where fiction really helped a lot. Because if I was writing, I think if I was writing a memoir, I don't think it ever would have ended. And I think writing fiction, you get to put a man whole cover on some of those emotions. And you can make it, you can give a different ending.
00:27I mean, the ending for Nikki, who is Tracy, in my book, is very different than Tracy's ending. And, you know, I got to send her to juvenile hall. I got to do some things that were really healing. My dad got a really good edit. My dad's ending was a really great edit. He didn't, it wasn't quite as sad as it was in real life. So it was very healing.
00:49Kind of cathartic in that way.
