Abby Off the Record — The scoop on life, writing & raising kids
Description: Writing coaching, workshops and retreats with Kate Hopper, founder of Motherhood & Words®, helping women write the stories they need to write.
Writing the Stories We Need to Write®
Helping women write their truths has been my passion for almost two decades. It began when I was in the middle of working on Ready for Air , a memoir about my older daughter’s premature birth. The more I talked about the project, the more raised eyebrows and glazed eyes I encountered. One person even said, “Oh, you’re writing about your baby. How, um, sweet.” I began to realize that my writing was not being taken seriously because my subject matter had to do with motherhood.
So even while I was writing the first draft of my memoir, I knew I was involved in an uphill battle to get it taken seriously. But this was a book I was passionate about writing, one I felt deserved to be out in the world. My solution was to keep writing, and also to develop a creative nonfiction class for women interested in writing about their experiences as mothers. I wanted to create a place where women could give written expression to their lives as women and mothers, where their writing would be taken
Abby Off the Record — The scoop on life, writing & raising kids