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

[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.