For Life Story Writers

Life stories have long, high-jumping, fast-running legs. They can heal, pass on culture and history to future generations, and set the record straight. They leap into memoirs, autobiographies, songs, poetry, visual art, satires, cartoons, novels, and fact-based fiction. If you're already writing your life stories, or planning to, I hope that my writing journeys shared here will give you ideas for where your journey can take you.


Monday, April 18, 2011

Who Said. . . ?



Who said a book is divided into chapters, or sections?
I didn’t.

Who said a book has to be cohesive, organized, and maybe even sequential?
I didn’t.

Who said a book has to have a central theme that readers all agree on?
I didn’t.

Who said the author has to give a story a beginning, middle, and end ?
I didn’t.

Who said a book needs to be edited and polished by the author and people in the publishing industry?
I didn’t.

Who said a book can be a collection of scenes in no particular order, generated from the movies in the author’s own mind?
I did.

Who said it’s up to the readers to put the scenes together and add in their own scenes to make their own movies with their own personal themes?
I did.

Who said that the author and each reader are co-creators of this story?
I did.

Who said, “I did”? 
Hmmm.



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