Has anyone ever sat there and tried to write about there lives?

i write about my self n everything around me. its nice to write n read again about it. do u know how to make ur diary become a book (novel)?????thanks

hello nice to meet you.happy new year to you .i feel tired ,because i am so busying recently .now i still can not have a good rest .because i have to help my sister for she business.can you help me please .thankyou .

I am currently working on an autobiography. Although it is now a piece of fiction as I had to change a few details to protect the identities others. It is very difficut to write about one's experiences. It is scary and you do wonder, will anyone care. I am writing my book to let others know that they are not alone in what they are dealing with. I've dealth with many things that no one should have to go through, but many do. I've been working on this book for the past 15 years on and off. Give yourself time, write in chunks (when a scene hits you write it down, then put it together later), and don't give up. If you have a story to tell write it. If nothing else, then write it for yourself.

I have joined many social sites and when it comes to the part where it says, "write something about yourself", I find this a bit difficult - probably because I know myself and tend to wonder what people want to know. I can quite easily write about my job and have written a small novel (fictionalised) about my life when I was a professional musician. But I guess that isn't about me so much as what I did and the "mischief" I got up to. LOL... Derek

I've made this attempt a few times, and even bought a book about how to do this (You Can Write a Memoir, by Hauser). But, it was too difficult to get through because so many negative things have happened in the past. Then, like you, I wonder why I'm bothering. I have over a dozen handwritten journals from 1997 to now . . . and wonder if that would be good enough to serve as my memoirs.

Two years ago I was taking a psychology class and one day we were asked to write the story of our lives and read it aloud to the class. It was very difficult for me to get started, I didn't know what to write about and how to write about it. I am only 32, but my story is very long, because I have lived many different places, I have had many different jobs etc, so the idea of writing about my life seemed very overwhelming. I managed to write something for that class, but there were lots of things that I didn't write about, and I would like to write the entire story one day.

No I haven't but I would like to one day. I lost my brother when I was 12. He was killed when he was 22 and I have been wanting to write a book about his life. A few of my writer friends have suggested making the book into a fiction piece so I don't have to remember all of the details and have to have everything just right! I know it will be hard but it is something I need and want to do so I am going to sit down one day when I have free time and peace and quiet and just do it. Don't know when that day will ever be because it seems anymore I never have free time or peace and quiet. I will do it though, I have to! :)

I have written the story of my life to pass on to my children and grandchildren. My grandmother started this tradition. She wrote of her childhood and family and requested that the family add to it. As of this moment our family book is about 400 pages long. I know my two daughters have started to add to it, my sons don't seem to want to take the time. I hope this will follow on to my grandkids and down the line. I don't know if the general public would be interested in this but to our family it is a treasure and we each have a copy. As of now we have them in binders. My uncle has thought about going to a bookbinder to see what it would cost to actually have them bound into a book.