You Should Write a Book
I’ve decided to share excerpts of my short stories and poetry on a regular basis now that I have a lot of stuff. This is hard for me to do since it requires a routine and being able to post work without tinkering endlessly with it before I post it. I know, it’s a control thing, but what’s a girl to do?
On a related note, I’ve been working on a memoir, it’s coming along well but I’m not sure how much or how little to write biographically. what is common knowledge to me, for example, may not be common knowledge to my relatives and I want to express my views without hurting them. I think it comes from the belief of “sparing” another person’ and wish the fear of doing this didn’t also imply that doing this is also keeping secrets.
So, I’m letting it all out, regurgitating childhood experiences, reflections of relatives past and present, providing a detailed description of who I am, what I think, and how I’ve been influenced by others, especially while growing up. This is the crux of it all, how I developed, who helped or hindered it, who left scars, who provided love and joy.
It is intimate and perhaps uncomfortable for some, but hoepfully enlightening for most.
I don’t necessarily want a feel good or woe is me book; rather, a real piece of a life, a truth best described by the person best suited to tell it. So, the next post will hopefully be the beginning of this memoir.