notes: How to Write a Autobiographical Novel

by A. Chee. a mixed Korean-American. so now i have two people on my Korean-Am Hall of Fame.

1.  John Cho
2. Alexander Chee

onto the notes:

• querent - one having Tarot reading done, seeker. [so i learned a new word]
• while training to be yoga teacher, learned about the siddhis, the gifts. undue power over others, but also a obstacle to enlightenment. 
• i learned the first three pages of a draft are usually where you clear your throat, that most times, the place your draft begins is around page four. That if the beginning isn't there, sometimes it's at the end, that you've spent the whole time getting to your beginning, and that if you switch the first and last pages you might have a better result than if you leave them where they were. 
• Remember adverbs are a sign that you've used the wrong verb. 
• Frank Conroy to him: "You succeed, you celebrate, you stop writing. You don't succeed, you despair, you stop writing. Just keep writing. Don't let success or failure stop you. Just keep writing."
• the only things you must have to become a writer are the stamina to continue and a wily, cagey heart in the face of extremity, failure, and success. 
• cat's eye, m. atwood. different povs
• you don't know who will make it and who will not, and students' previous work may or may not be an indicator of what they can do, good or bad.
• Most of what Annie Dillard taught me was about habits of mind and habits of work. 
• Dying, what stories would you tell?