How did you come up with the title? I was thinking about an unreliable narrator and all the stories I tell my kids about when they were babies. And what I heard too. And how babies are privy to so much because everyone thinks they won’t remember. And thinking about the baby Stewie from The Family Guy.
What can you tell us about the inception of this piece? It was from a prompt in a workshop. If you could change one thing. I imagined changing everything at the start of a life.
If we could lift up the log of this piece, what would we see there? Admitting the story was fiction allowed me to feel the feelings. Use a more confident voice. And gave me the title.
If this piece were a small forest creature, what kind of small forest creature would it be? Why? Fisher. In Ontario used to be expensive fur. Brave enough to attack porcupines head on.
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