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tracy
Wandering Member
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170
Registered: 03-2002
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I have had several people over the course of the last year suggest that I write a book on some of my recent experiences. They think that people could learn from what happened to me.
Has anyone tried that? What genre of books would that be?
Thank you,
Tracy |
Perry
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Registered: 08-2008
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we had one member, a regular, I can't remember but SHE had written about an illness she suffered and the book was popular with an organization dealing with that illness. |
Nancy Mehl
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Well, it would probably be an autobiography. Sounds like it might be very interesting. Might also be cathartic...
Nancy
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"The Ivy Towers Mystery Series" Barbour Books - 2008
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tracy
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171
Registered: 03-2002
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thanks Perry. I should shoot Kathy B. an email on that. She would probably know. I hadn't thought about that.
Cathartic would be the right word for it, Nancy. I guess I just have to get up the guts to write it all down. I am considering it.
Tracy |
Laurel Johnson
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Registered: 01-2002
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My book The Grass Dance is about a very difficult period of my life. Nothing as serious as what you've been through, but I've had people tell me they gained a different perspective on their life after reading it.
I called it a non fiction memoir, but it probably fell short of being a memoir OR an autobiography.
Catharsis can be difficult, but also enlightening, and it would also be helpful to others.
Laurel Johnson
http://laureljohnsonblogs.blogspot.com
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Claudia Turner VanLydegraf
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my book, Notes from Nobody, was a very cathartic thing to write. While writing it, I cried with every word I put down, and then cried again as I read what I wrote, but it helped me a lot. I also helped me solve the hurts in my heart and fill the place with other things that are more relevant now.
Claudia
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tracy
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172
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"Catharsis can be difficult, but also enlightening, and it would also be helpful to others."
very true, Laurel. I've started writing it, but it really isn't the tears that get in my way. I have to stop and do something physical. It's the anger that gets me out of focus. I call mowing my lawn "anger management." I think I have the best lawn in the state! I mow the lawn whether it needs it or not. It usually removes the anger from me to do that. Writing it all down just makes the anger rise. I guess I'll keep writing and mowing.... the neighbors do look at me weird though.
Tracy |
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Good idea writing about your own experiences; your heart will be in your work |
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