Honesty in Writing #6
“Try to imagine that everyone you know is dead when you’re writing this.” This process certainly seemed to work for Jennette McCurdy. Throughout her book, she is very open and honest with the audience. That couldn’t have been easy for her, but the advice seems to have helped. In her memoir, McCurdy discusses at length the perils of being a child actor, her struggles with alcoholism, anorexia, bulimia, and her sexual experiences, often very graphically. This works for the novel as it helps the audience get a deeper insight into the life and experiences of Jennette and even helps us sympathize with her even more. If I were to write a memoir, I don't think I would be as open and honest with my audience as Jennette is. Even though I know that the advice is supposed to make me write more truthfully and be more transparent with my experiences, I know that’s a load of BS. I wouldn’t be able to ignore the fact that strangers would be reading the things that I would be writing about. I k...