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| Amanda Foreman with her daughter |
Writer Eve MacSweeney writes a great article about Amanda. Eve peels back her layers to reveal the writer however preserving some of her privacy. The voice of the article is easy as if she wrote about a respectable and loved friend. Vogue has excellent writers to match their excellent content.
Besides being entertained as a Vogue reader, I learned a few things that tilted my outlook so my viewpoint on life is fresher and brighter and most certainly, less worried. How did all that happen in two and half pages?
The first lesson taught me more about character. Eve shows Amanda's life that balances work and family. Through this I see what is important to Amanda and can relate that to my characters. You can read what drives Amanda to write and her love of history and how she relates it to today's world. And why her childhood and life led her to having five children and what she pushed aside to do what is important to her.
Another lesson learned is the life of a writer. Sure she might be an award-winning writer whose biography turned into a movie. But one can relate to her. She wrote Georgiana for years, which was also her doctorate at Oxford. But you discover her passion. The passion needed to work on a book with no promise of success after all that's what all unpublished writers and some published writers face each time we sit down before our computers. She reinforced my belief to follow your heart's desires and not just with writing but with all that you desire, which for her was having a family.
Those are the lessons that fueled me. I'm revving to go. Good thing since I already started to follow them. I hope you do too. What are your passions? Please share with me.
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