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Photo credit: Meryl SchenkerDonna Miscolta is Plume’s featured writer for September! I’ve never met Donna before, but I had the absolute pleasure to meet and talk with her on Zoom a few days ago when we chatted with her for our podcast. Stay tuned for that great talk at the beginning of September! We are so excited to share her work with you. Please enjoy the interview that follows to get to know more about her.Plume: When did you know you were a writer?Donna Miscolta: I think I knew fairly early in elementary school that I had a certain ability when it came to words. Creating sentences and organizing ideas were things I understood so much better than math or science, for instance. But it was an ability that I didn’t value enough. I didn’t know that I could be a writer. I had no clue how to become one. When the urge to write grew too insistent to ignore, I began taking classes at age 39. I secretly called myself a writer. Only after I had publications to my name did I say the word out loud, though I knew it had been true all along. P: Where do you get your ideas?DM: A lot of my ideas arise from my experience with or observations of people around me, often family, but also friends, acquaintances, and strangers. My novel When the de la Cruz Family Danced was inspired in part by my father’s immigration story which involved his leaving the Philippines by way of the U.S. Navy after World War II. That was the only factual part of the novel. Everything else was made up, which shows how little you need to grow a story or novel. Almost all the stories in Hola and Goodbye had as its seed an anecdote I’d heard or an object or phrase that reverberated with some significance. For instance, my grandmother grew roses and the image of a rose being plucked from a bush was what precipitated the story of the end of a friendship among four immigrant women. My newest book Living Color: Angie Rubio Stories is the work that draws most heavily from my personal experiences. Each story owes its existence to something, however insignificant, that happened to me. I used fiction to make meaning out of these little incidents, the memory of which, for whatever reason, stayed with me over the … Read more
