My book project about my life in Jonestown is never far out of my thoughts, just as the people I’m writing about never are. Even as I work at my own sometimes-glacial pace, the writing is still a mainstay in my life.<\/p>\n
I have to admit I stopped writing at one time because it was not going the way I wanted it to. It just was not what I wanted to say. I didn’t like it. Sometimes when I read back what I’d written, I realized I had missed something, or something that had sounded one way in my mind hadn’t translated that way onto the page. I set deadlines for myself to complete a chapter every two weeks, but sometimes those two weeks turned into a month. I wanted to give up. I lost my motivation. So I needed to regroup.<\/p>\n
The first thing I had to do was find a quiet place to write, someplace where my mind could be clear, a room with a vibe to write. Of all things, I found that room at work. I stay a couple hours late after work and work on the project. I have been doing this the last few months. I just start typing, my thoughts flow easily, I can think and remember without leaving something out that may be of great importance.<\/p>\n
I changed the process. Now I just write. I think, I write, I let the words flow from my mind onto the pages of what I hope to be a very enlightening project.<\/p>\n
I must leave you and continue my journey. Just keep your eyes and ears open. I am nearing completion.<\/p>\n
(Dawn Gardfrey was in Georgetown with her grandmother, Ruby Neal Johnson, on November 18. Her other articles in this edition of <\/i>the jonestown report are The Loyalty of Johnny Moss Brown<\/a>, My Friend, Sonje Regina Duncan<\/a>, and Keeping in Touch through the World of Social Media<\/a>. Her previous articles are here<\/a>. She can be reached at <\/i>dawn.gardfrey@gmail.com<\/a>.)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My book project about my life in Jonestown is never far out of my thoughts, just as the people I’m writing about never are. Even as I work at my own sometimes-glacial pace, the writing is still a mainstay in my life. I have to admit I stopped writing at one time because it was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":40242,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-40246","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40246"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80732,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40246\/revisions\/80732"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}