Fantastic to hear of your efforts and enthusiasm. Though not yet senior
but on the doorstep, late 25 is it? I have but one memoir Still Life
With Psychotic Squirrel, available here at NB and Amazon.

C.B. Smith

Marlys, your blog is like my blog... about capturing memories, only I encourage all ages to do it! I will have to bookmark you!

Linda
Cherry Blossoms in Twilight
www.moonbridgebooks.com

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I can empathize with your dilemma. My "Memoir," or I should say, autobiography is started in three formats: 1, a fictionalized account with a reporter being the character to bring out my story, a family saga, going back to my grandfather's entry at Ellis Island, and beginning with my funeral at which I am a guest. Deeiding which is the best way to go is a problem. Readers seem to enjoy the latter as there is much humor injected.

Using real names also presents a quandary. In my case, all the principals have already left this plane, and they are my family for the most part, except for two ex-husbands. So, I'm not much help to you.

D

I have different aspects of my life I want to write about. One of them would include the stories told to me by other women. I was thinking of writing this as a fiction. But I keep getting stuck. Fear of what I have to go over? Maybe could be just the fact that real life doesn’t follow a pattern, beginning, middle and end.
Is anyone having this problem?

Jean Boggio, Author, Publisher
www.jeanboggio.com
www.colerithpress.com

I am also a senior, but not yet retired (mortgages to pay).

After taking a memoir writing course, I finally decided to write the family story, as well as my own life as a descendant of a rather colorful family. I, of course, don't stop there. With encouragement from friends and family, it seems this story needed to be told, involving as it does, eminent domain and other issues. Looking at the dismal state of traditional publishing, and the false hopes of assisted publishing, I decided to start my own publishing business.

So here I am, publisher at Colerith Press, about to launch my first book, STOLEN FIELDS: A Story of Eminent Domain and the Death of the American Dream. It will be out this spring. I have more to write in at least two future books. I have been contacted by a talented young man who has written a beautiful memoir that he published through assisted publishing, but has realized it is the kiss of death in the trade world. He and I will be working together to publish his book through Colerith Press to give it the credibility it needs to have it's day in the sun. This has been exciting so far, and promises to be more so as I travel this path.

Please check out my websites at www.jeanboggio.com and www.colerithpress.com.

My name is Jodie Miller and I'm am part way through writing my very first memoir. I am looking for some mentoring along the way. Have I come to the right place? It seems like everyone has already published something.

I am writing a memoir of the past ten years of my life; becoming a mother and getting swept up in a political movement for childbirth reform in my local community which resulted in government social and health reform. I hope to tie it together through comparing my grandmother's, my mother's and my own, experiences in becoming mothers.

Uriah, it seems like we might have some common interests.

My biggest challenge is writing about my friends and family, as well as people whom I have a less comfortable history with. How do I tell a true story without defaming anyone, or insulting anyone, in the process?

Hi Everyone,

I’ve always enjoyed reading memoirs. Kudos to everyone for sharing their life experiences.

I have found memoir writing to be both emotionally draining and extremely rewarding. Nothing is more satisfying for me than to hear from a reader that the sharing of my experience validated them and changed their life! What could be better than that?

It took me twelve years to complete my first memoir “Heal and Forgive: Forgiveness in the Face of Abuse.” When it was done, I was sure I never wanted to write another book. Nonetheless, just like the old saying goes, “Never say never!”

After the publication of my first book, my family read it and we reconciled our fourteen year estrangement. Our reconciliation was the catalyst for my new title “Heal and Forgive II: The Journey from Abuse and Estrangement to Reconciliation.”

You can check out my blog at:
http://healandforgive.blogspot.com/

Thanks to all,
Nancy