Would you ever write an autobiography?

[terrya]

[Blue-Jay]

1. Nah. I'm not interesting enough.

Plus, my writing sucks.

[Lavender Brown]

2. Sure.

It would make lots of money as a self-help book for insomniacs. :boring: :boring: :boring: :boring:

[Hugin]

3. I've started mine several times...

I'll probably finish it posthumously. ;)

[DelawareValleyDem]

4. Sure. The question is would anybody bother reading it?

[MissMillie]

5. Only if my mother were not still alive

I'd hate to break her heart.

[Shell Beau]

6. Yeah if I wanted to bore someone to tears.

[Debi]

7. It would be so cool

cuz I'd make a bunch of stuff up! :bounce:

It'd sell a couple of hundred thousand copies before anyone caught on and I'd already be rich. Then I'd go on Oprah and cry and say I just wanted people to think I was more interesting than I really was. I'd get a small part in a major motion picture b/c Hollywood felt sorry for me. Then I'd get a coke habit and bottom out. Then I'd write my follow-up auto-bio and tell the truth. It would not sell. :cry:

[Hugin]

9. Daaaaang...

You've got this all planed out Debi...

Can I drive your limo during the "up phase"?

[Debi]

15. Sure

But remember to ask for your pay up-front so I don't stiff you on my rapid decline!

[Hugin]

17. No pay needed.

I'd just write some sort of a expose biography on you and get
it published by some 'loid or another. Causing your downfall.
Then feel really guilty about it. Rinse. Repeat.

Okay?

[Debi]

25. Hey, I'll have you drive me to a seedy tattoo parlor

and you can watch me get a tattoo in a REALLY private place (I'll be stoned so you'll take pix). Then you can say we had a torrid affair and sell the pix to a rag-mag for LotsO$$$ and I won't be able to deny it cuz I'll have the tattoo :bounce:

I'll only cry and say I thought I could trust you because we were so close.

[Hugin]

45. Naw, it's been done...

Instead, why not arrange for a paparazzi to catch some pix of
you lip syncing in a thong while experiencing a wardrobe malfunction.

I'll take the video and cut-paste in some soldiers, young
school children, and flags. Blare it out over ET or some other
pulp infotainment source.

Then you can announce your engagement to somebody, but, disappear
when alter time is nigh.

Show up a few days later... Hair all suggestively mussed. Saying
something about an alien abduction.

Now *there* is something I could sell.

You need a hit song first though.

(BTW... The torrid affair never happened... K?) ;)

[Debi]

46. Okay

Only if Pat O'brien can do the expose!

It's okay about the affair...I was never into you anyway :eyes:

[knowbody0]

8. no one would believe mine

[Hugin]

12. I might.

I'm kind of gullible that way...

Plus, I've always enjoyed fiction more anyway.

[Book Lover]

10. Yes, and I think everyone should

[mcscajun]

27. There was a poet who agreed with you...I do, too.

From the Greek poet Nikos Kazantzakis: "When a man dies, that particular vision of life that was his and his alone dies with him. It therefore behooves every man to tell his story."

[Book Lover]

30. Wise words

I guess I deleted my message when I posted... I originally said that if I had even sketchy details about my family's life a two or three generations ago, that would be better than what I have now, which is niente. Also great for having the "last word," or explaining some family incident to future generations when all they have is someone else's version of the story...

[evlbstrd]

11. No. I'll let someone else write it. n/t

[jackelope72]

13. If I did, it would probably take the form of humorous memoirs.

Everything based on my real life, but exaggerated and twisted to humorous effect. Possible titles: "Goop Boy and the Magic Turtle"; "Walking Through Watts and Other Stupidities"; and "Never Mind Me; I Was Just Talking".

[Hugin]

14. Didn't I already read your autobiography?

[jackelope72]

16. I don't think so.

I haven't written my autobiography yet, so I'm pretty sure it hasn't been written yet.

Why? Did I inadvertently steal someone else's title?

[Hugin]

21. No, I don't think so...

But, it sounds like something I might read.

I'm planning on putting mine out in coloring book form.

[kick-ass-bob]

18. Better question:

Would anyone want to read it?

:D

[terrya]

20. I'm sure yours would be kick ass...

:-)

[amazona]

19. maybe not sure

If I could be completely, 100 percent sure I was not going back into my former occupation, I might if the price was right. Promoting my story would ruin my anonymity and in my career anonymity or alternate identities are everything. I might just go back to the old work, since you make a lot more money "doing" than writing about doing. And not just a little more. A lot more. Autobiography is only a big money-maker if you're Bill Clinton or another celebrity. Or if you have some terrible tragic tale, boo hoo hoo, well, if I had some terrible tragic tale, I sure wouldn't want it in front of the public. Who wants to make a profession out of being pathetic?

Another problem is that some of the events in my life are so truly weird and unusual that they don't really make a good narrative because truth is stranger than fiction...hence it doesn't read as believably as fiction.

Maybe I'll just stick with my journal.

The conservation movement is a breeding ground of communists
and other subversives. We intend to clean them out,
even if it means rounding up every birdwatcher in the country.
--John Mitchell, US Attorney General 1969-72

[jackelope72]

22. Okay...

I know *I* suddenly became a lot more curious about your life.

[Debi]

26. Are you with the CIA?

and how do you know Joe Wilson?

[amazona]

40. ha ha no

I'm bored with talking about myself. Maybe later.

The conservation movement is a breeding ground of communists
and other subversives. We intend to clean them out,
even if it means rounding up every birdwatcher in the country.
--John Mitchell, US Attorney General 1969-72

[XNASA]

23. You mean a "Tell All" autobiography?

:dilemma:

[luvLLB]

24. Yeah, but who would read it?

[mcscajun]

28. Not only would I, I've considered it and half-started it more than once.

Maybe someday soon I actually will do it.

[GreenPartyVoter]

29. I've fictionalized a part of my life and will eventually release it

as a teen chick lit book. (seriously.)

[Marnieworld]

31. I fantasize about it all of the time

Sssh don't tell anyone though cuz it's a secret. ;-)

[Mutley]

32. only if my life was interesting enough for people to read about

[Left Is Write]

33. I would if I thought anyone would be interested in the story.

[Magrittes Pipe]

34. It'd be pretty fucking boring.

:(

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

35. Yes. I have had some interesting life experiences.

Some of which defy conventional wisdom.

[Jamastiene]

36. Yes and

I would try to make it as humourous as possible since much of my life has been hideous. I'd have to keep readers interested somehow and naking people laugh is the thing I love best.

[progmom]

37. I definitely need to document some of my experiences

But can't see ever publishing 'em.

[bertha katzenengel]

38. dupe self-delete

self delete

[bertha katzenengel]

39. I fully intend to. Unless I die early, I will.

I need very badly to tell other women that there is life -- good life -- on the other side of despair.

[SOteric]

41. I cannot imagine that the few people who give a crap about my life

would be sufficient generated sales to cover the costs of printing more than 2 or 3 individual books. Publishing company are usually looking for more sales than that.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

42. Yeah..but you're verbose when you wanna be

Maybe I'll have you ghostwrite mine :D

[SOteric]

44. Fair enough.

:7

[DS1]

47. SOteric is far less verbose than she lets on

In fact most of our conversations involve a 20 questions form of communication, one tap yes, two taps no. :D

Don't be fooled by everything you read on the internets.

[NorthernSpy]

43. lord, no!

I'd rather keep myself to myself.