Writing a Memoir: Are you a Real Author?
A client involved in writing a memoir said to me the other day that he didn’t want to take my time away from the real authors, and I said, ‘You are a real author. You’ve written a book, haven’t you?’ He thought that because he was a hobby author, just writing a memoir, not a career author that he wasn’t a ‘real author’, and that set me thinking. We’re all authors We’re all authors actually. We are constantly writing the story of our lives, not necessarily with a pen, a pencil or a computer, but with every decision we make. We are the authors of our lives. We create our own story. Of course, we don’t have control over all the events in our lives. I certainly didn’t want thyroid cancer or any other kind of cancer. I never signed up to have epilepsy either, but it was my decision…