I'm relieved that everyone prefers long over short! Personally, I start losing my mind when I have to read a bunch of short things. No time to get to know the writer, for one thing! Thanks for all you do, Alison, and very happy about your book news.
Re the prompt: have I read it properly? Am contemplating writing my memoir, but I and my life are pretty dull, so why? Over the years people have told me I need to write them: co-workers, my daughter, my late mother who always wanted me to write about her family's feud. As I contemplate whether or not to bother - who would publish them, never mind read them - I also can't help but contemplate format. I have decades of journals to cull and to rely on. That is where I would start. Likely a mix of journal and narrative would be the format. The next hurdle: pulling these journals together, scattered through boxes unseen for years through many moves. OK, I've made a start. Then: space. Where on earth in my 600 sq ft flat can I set up such a project? All the journals would have to be collected and organized chronologically for a start. There would be useful entries that will take hours and hours of reading to find. Do I pull them out and put them in a separate stack? After that, would I keep the chronological format or some other format? I dither, years pass....
I'm relieved that everyone prefers long over short! Personally, I start losing my mind when I have to read a bunch of short things. No time to get to know the writer, for one thing! Thanks for all you do, Alison, and very happy about your book news.
Can’t wait for your book I’m 2025, Alison! Come to Chicago on tour!
Re the prompt: have I read it properly? Am contemplating writing my memoir, but I and my life are pretty dull, so why? Over the years people have told me I need to write them: co-workers, my daughter, my late mother who always wanted me to write about her family's feud. As I contemplate whether or not to bother - who would publish them, never mind read them - I also can't help but contemplate format. I have decades of journals to cull and to rely on. That is where I would start. Likely a mix of journal and narrative would be the format. The next hurdle: pulling these journals together, scattered through boxes unseen for years through many moves. OK, I've made a start. Then: space. Where on earth in my 600 sq ft flat can I set up such a project? All the journals would have to be collected and organized chronologically for a start. There would be useful entries that will take hours and hours of reading to find. Do I pull them out and put them in a separate stack? After that, would I keep the chronological format or some other format? I dither, years pass....
I love the background colour on this page. That is all.