The Story of Me

[DantesInferno]

If you were to write the story of your life up until this day, what thematic issues would be found in its content? Would it be a tragedy? A romance? A comedy? A psychological thriller? Most importantly, do you think it would sell and would you buy a copy yourself?

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[tazdev]

Mine would probably be a comedy of tragic proportions (or should that be a tragedy of comic proportions).

Would anyone buy it? NO because even I wouldn't want to see it

[darkness]

Mine would start out like one of those Teen high school movies about some loser, but that doesn't actually get the girl or become cool, then turn into a story about a mentally insane guy who has somehow avoided therapy and going to the nuthouse and is tormented by his past.

[speediva]

Just call me "Daria" as in the MTV character... only my life isn't half as cool.

I'm a bit of a tomboy with little luck in love, a fiery attitude, a sharp wit and no truly distiguishable characteristics except that I can never convince anyone that I'm any older than 16. (I'll be 20 in exactly one month)

I wouldn't read or watch my own story, and I'd beg others to avoid it as well.

[carnut]

would be one big fiction, because I wouldn't want my family to know what I did when I left home for Uncle Sams Air Force. My son always used to ask me what I did in the service (Vietnam Era) and I told him I was defending my country. While in and after the service, I became one wild party animal, I was/am not usually like that but when you have all those influences around you, you grab life by the horns and party!

I guess it would sell 4 copies, as I would buy all four and send them to my son, parents, sister and brother.

[taranaki]

Originally posted by darkness
Mine would start out like one of those Teen high school movies about some loser, but that doesn't actually get the girl or become cool, then turn into a story about a mentally insane guy who has somehow avoided therapy and going to the nuthouse and is tormented by his past.

Mine will be better!

[DantesInferno]

I suppose that I should respond to my own thread, with a response as thoughtful as the ones above. It is difficult to speculate how my novel would be classified. At times, a romance, at others a tragedy, still others a mystery and thriller. The setting would change as well, taking place in over six states, and discussing encounters with a variety of people, some who have proven more influential on my life than others. It would detail a struggle for independance, and yet would represent a tale of continued dependance, allowing others to make or break the happiness I had found. It would, however, end well. That I can assure you. I can also assure that two members of AF would be significant roles within the pages of this novel. I have been urged to write for some time and now in a precarious financial situation, I may have the chance.

Would anyone buy it? Yes, I believe they would. Would I buy a copy? Of course I would, if only to run my fingertips over the raised print of my name on the cover to convince myself that a dream has finally become a reality.

[Ssom]

Mine would be about an innocent mind born into financial success and surrounded by it as his siblings grew up, then it would become comedic as I dig myself deeper and deeper in every situation and often make a moron of myself, then a heroic story of a fat lazy kid who decided to put himself into shape for the sake of his health, then my complete disaster of a love-life would be a comedy as a girl has never put up with me for more than two weeks and the more harsh times like my parents bickering and my brother, who was an insparation for me, shifting off to Italy............

Generally it would change as it evolved from many diferent genre's of writing and yes I would buy a copy, as I feel I have lived a pretty sweet life when I compare it to some

[Damien]

There isn't much to write on my life seeing how I only have lived 15 years. Yet, there might actually be since I've moved 8 times and that I've changed everythime I've moved and I've been to 10 schools and goin into 11th grade. As in older thread, your surroundings may change you and my book would be multigenered. Thanks to that great military, my book might catch some poeple's attention and if I'm lucky, I might by the book myself.

[KatWoman]

My life hasn't been overly dramatic or exiciting, so there's really nothing out of the ordinary to write about.

Long version:

Born
Went thru grade school/high school/some college
Went to work full time at age 20
Met Alex fell in love...still attempting to save for wedding
trying to start own business

and inbetween all that a few friends gained and lost, a few family and pet deaths, a few other heartbreaks here n there

Short version:

born, went to school, went to work, fell in love, wants to start a biz.


Pretty exciting stuff huh?

[JD@af]

My story of life would be basically about the struggle for identity and understanding. A string of events, of influential to monotonous occurrences that somehow form a cohesive whole, even if they don't make sense in the form of a glorified run-on sentence, but simply stick together because they express the facts of one's life. People wandering in and out of life, events that never seem to do more than scratch the surface of who I am, because they almost never succeed in breaking through to what lies beneath to alter the state of operations. The core is the variety of experiences, and that hopefully in the long run they serve to educate without brainwashing, without engraining stereotyped thinking.

I'd be sure to partially devote and focus my writing on a character I met in a hotel parking lot in Texas in April 2001, on how a homeless, schizophrenic wanderer seemed to have a better grasp on whom he was and his role in life than most anyone I meed, simply because he understood the pointlessness and he was able to separate himself from humanity's madness.

There might be a book in all this somewhere, and yes, I think people would pay attention long enough to read it.