I told my speech therapist that I was frustrated that I haven’t been able to write fiction since experiencing a traumatic brain injury — which means that I am still, after nearly two years, unable to do my job.
Over 1.5 million Americans experience a traumatic brain injury each year.
The toll of traumatic brain injuries and the mystery of how the brain repairs itself, or doesn’t, is still perplexing and under-researched.
I had to invent a new process in order to tackle the project: ideas inscribed one at a time, thought by thought, sentence by sentence, on note cards, each composed over days, weeks, months.
Once there was a queen who fell under a spell, causing her to sink into a deep sleep for a long, long time.
Persons:
I’ve, ”, me holler, I’d, that’s, snowflakes, I’m, It’s, —, “, giveth, Lord taketh, Keats, Butler, Vonnegut, unstuck, Weeks
Locations:
Florida, —