started my memoirs!

[mckitterick]

Yay me!

Feels good to be writing again... my own stuff, that is. I'm about 4000 words in -- last year's Sturgeon winner said I should write my memiors, but I wasn't so sure. Then Kij and I saw "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind" yesterday and I realized how to write it -- fictionalized, just a few percent. So it'll be a novel, really; 98% real but 100% true.

I wrote about 3500 words last night, and a bit of touching-up today. A memoir goes so fast, because all the texture, detail, emotion doesn't need to be fabricated. I hope to finish in a month or two! Wish me luck.

Best,
Chris

Comments

[kijjohnson.livejournal.com]

Out of curiosity, why not? There seems to be this universal sense that memoire is a bad idea, but I can't figure out whether it's because it's considered too hard, or not hard enough, or egotistical and dull for others, or what. And this despite the fact that we're all usually fascinated to hear other peoples' stories in real life.

--Not that I've ever tried memoire. ;)

[starstraf.livejournal.com]

because I'm not emotionally ready to write that story. The story that would make a great book is my mothers death. I got farther telling that this year (NYE posting) then any time before but there are a ton more details that would come up if I tried to write it into a book and I'm not ready to face those deamons.

[kijjohnson.livejournal.com]

I can understand that. Memoir that makes us look at painful things we've experienced is going to be painful.