Divorce Writing

That’s the opening sentence of this short essay. My anecdotal beginning. My lede. Does it strike interest? What do I follow this sentence with? Can I follow with a pithy story, a narrative of mourning, a phoenix like rise from the ashes of disappointment and despair? A narrative of overcoming the odds? I went on sabbatical, and then I was divorced. How do I write about this? How do I write about my divorce in way that does not ask those who know us both to take sides? How can I write about something so painful that I am not accused afterward of poisoning someone’s image? How can I write about divorce in a way that is insightful and simultaneously bitter? I don’t know. I have no clue. But I am a writer. I write. I get paid to write. I was given sabbatical to write. I want to write about the divorce. Everything I experience, I want to write about it. Academics, when they write, often set out to prove something. I have nothing to prove. I only want to write. But when I write, I often write metaphorically. Can divorce be a metaphor? Of course it can. But which one? <a href="https://drfabulous.medium.com/divorce-writing-fc510edf5d4e">Read More</a>