Writing my life story is not easy. My friends are constantly telling me that I need to write down my life story. But, it is one of the most difficult things to do well. Why is that? I can imagine new worlds and adventures, but writing about things that have really happened is tough. I think that it might be how closely tied to the story I am. It is difficult to make real events drive a storyline. As Mark Twain once said, "Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities, truth is not." So a lot of life experiences do not make sense in the story, they just distract from it.
Another thing that I have noticed is the constant internal battle between memory and the truth. Should I tell how things happened, or how I perceived them happening? I guess it depends, but I cannot decide.
Either way, I'll have to put off my life story until after Nano.
BTW, If you would like to hear a little about my life, please check out my other blog here.
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