We each have life stories to tell and while you may think your life is boring, unexciting and uninteresting, I am sure you can pull a lot of worthwhile facts from it, to make a story. I want to write about my life, drawing from my earliest childhood memory to the present, leaving my children my legacy, of sorts, so that they can add their own story to it and pass it on to their children. As we get older and life happens, it is so easy to forget things, whether good or bad, and in the daily grind, everything starts to meld together and the past becomes fuzzy. I believe that reliving your life through writing is a form of cleansing your soul, liberating us from past hurts, painful losses and bad relationships, while at the same time, filling us with joy as we recollect those memories that are most dear to us.
As this new year start, I am thinking about writing about myself, my family, friends, enemies, and anything that I have learned and want to pass on to my children, friends, etc. In a way, I want to be like a historian, and collect information from relatives, friends, and go as far back as much as I can with my family tree.
My life story outline:
1. Title
2. Prologue (optional)
3. Chapters: Each chapter will have a title and significant events that occurred in my life and lesson learned from it, or just an entertaining story that meant something to me
4. Epilogue (optional)
5. Dedication of book
I have not started this yet, but I plan to do so soon and will post excerpts on my blog as I go along.
What do you think about writing your life story?
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4 comments:
Ana, good luck with this project. I'm sure it will be both creatively and personally fulfilling. In some ways, I feel like I still need to live a whole lot more before writing my life story. I think I need more material:) My poems are glimpses of parts of me. I guess that's a start.
What an ambitious project! Sounds like you've got a good outline for it. Wishing you much success.
My writing life story would read much like a soap opera! If I were to write it, I wonder if it would be believed! LOL!
@septembermom
Thank you. I know it is an ambitious project, but it is something I have been thinking about for a while now. I think even if you have a lot more life to live that you can start now putting it together, events that stuck out in your mind and/or that you learned for. I love your poems and you can include these in your life story, along with what inspired you to write the poem, etc.
Thank you, as always, for your support.
@Donna
Thank you for your support. If your life story reads like a soap opera, it will definitely be a bestseller! Soap operas do very well on tv. Who cares if your story will be believed or not, it will make for great reading! Please think about writing your story...I would love to read it.
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