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![]() ![]() I was willing to “let it be.” Two weeks later I was writing the story of a wife who finds herself and the nature and meaning of love transformed as she cares for her husband who has been diagnosed with early Alzheimer’s disease. So I stopped, took a breath and gave the process over quite literally to a higher power. I had written 100 pages of a novel that was going nowhere very fast. This is what happened: I was trapped inside the wrong story. So there was nothing in my life, my past or my then-present to explain the fictional expedition I launched. I am not caring for anyone afflicted with it and no one in my family, from what I know, has ever been diagnosed with dementia or Alzheimer’s. ![]() I am often asked why I wrote a novel about Alzheimer’s disease. That’s how inspiration, art, and creativity work sometimes. Silent Storm: What We Remember, What We Forget, What We DiscoverĪ Novelist Meditates on Writing about Alzheimer’s ![]()
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