Things to do: Your Biography or Memoir

March 20, 2019 1:04pm CST
I think I'd like to consider writing my biography someday. Or some kind of a memoir. It doesn't need to be published but it will be instructive for anyone--friends and relatives. Or, it would be interesting for my own children to pass on to their children--my grandchildren. Thinking about it is quite terrifying. And yet, exciting. My journals can fill up those pages and pages of white spaces bound into a book--or books of my own. Anyway, it's an ambitious, wishful thinking, for now. I'd love to take that flight and leap of faith, so to speak. How about you? Have you dreamed of something like this-- writing your biography or memoir--which is, a little bit daunting, impossible dream? I believe you can do it!
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@DianneN (254949)
• United States
21 Mar 19
I don't have any interest in writing my biography, but I think you should if it's something that interests. you.
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@DianneN (254949)
• United States
23 Mar 19
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22 Mar 19
Thank you. A memoir is the project I've been contemplating of doing. But 90 (like the lady blogger I'm inspired by) is still a long way away (excuse to procrastinate. :-) )
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23 Mar 19
@DianneN So many mispelled words!! Tsk!
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@JudyEv (381760)
• Rockingham, Australia
21 Mar 19
I won't be having grandchildren so the whole exercise seems a bit pointless to me. I think you should do yours though.
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@JudyEv (381760)
• Rockingham, Australia
21 Mar 19
@everwonderwhy Thank you. That's nice of you to say so. :)
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21 Mar 19
Never say never! :-D You're a good writer and you seem to have pretty consistently good material here at myLot.
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22 Mar 19
@JudyEv Because you are. Relevant and interesting posts.
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@jaboUK (64346)
• United Kingdom
22 Mar 19
Like Judy, I don't have grandchildren, but I've put so much of myself into my posts and poems and they are collected together if my children should want them.
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22 Mar 19
Yes, I thought so. You are a very interesting, relatable writer. Putting your posts together would fill a whole memoir of your life.
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@Tampa_girl7 (54714)
• United States
21 Mar 19
You should go for it. Make your dream come true.
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22 Mar 19
Thank you. I just need to put together all my journals. They've been crying to attention to see the light on those pages.
@just4him (323168)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
22 Mar 19
Good luck with writing your biography or memoir. It's not an easy genre to write. I won't do it. My story will stay inside. It would hurt too many people if I made it known. I write Christian fiction.
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@just4him (323168)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
24 Mar 19
@everwonderwhy Thank you.
22 Mar 19
I understand you've published several Christian fiction novels. You're a prolific writer. I admire you!
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• India
20 Mar 19
Not writing but of course narrating it to my child's and people who are close to me and telling my story and my success journey but right now I have not achieved any success which makes me so proud of myself
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21 Mar 19
I'm very sure you have many exciting and inspiring stories, good or bad, to tell about your journey in life.
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• India
21 Mar 19
@everwonderwhy i have and i just want more of it and i want to tell my stories on a beauty beach sitting with friends or kids and telling them all they want to listen
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@snowy22315 (208746)
• United States
20 Mar 19
I haven't...at best it would be a cautionary tale!
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21 Mar 19
Why not? My lady friend published her book at 86. I was her editor. The nursing home and her handlers launched her first debut on the sales of her book.
@marguicha (230334)
• Chile
20 Mar 19
I thought about that, to leave to my grandchildren, once. Now I´m not interested anymore.
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21 Mar 19
I hope that wishful thinking of yours about publishing your memoir will come alive again. :-)