174: Kimberly Nixon- Author of Rock Bottom, Tennessee
This week's podcast is with Kimberly Nixon (Rock Bottom,Tennessee, indie-published, April 2022). Using an apocryphal family legend about her grandmother as the springboard, Kimberly set out to tell the story of an impoverished woman during the depression who went to prison for robbing trains. We discuss the delicate balance of giving yourself permission to change characters and details to further the narrative while also honoring your family's memory, how critique partners and mentors were crucial to her writing journey, and how she thinks of the first draft as an outline or sketch and her…
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