To think about writing a book around my crazy life?!

I think it's a wonderful idea. Well done for escaping your awful situation, and who knows? Maybe it could go on to help other women.

Creativity should never be discouraged.

A copywriter should know how to spell feasible.

@Samas but the OP hasn't done anything wrong. She just asked a question and as someone interested in narcissism, I think my replies are more realistic. I think potential author asking the same question would lose all their confidence by listening to the replies on here.

I just hope you don't have children.

No, it's just people on MN tend to rightly have a low tolerance for bull shit

@BurnTheWholeThingDown do you advertise? I'd be happy even to earn £100 a month from my book.

Yes but why does mnhq allow it ? It really changes the tone ,there are kind ways and means of saying things .

I am just surprised that deeply unpleasant posters seemed to be allowed but we can't be trusted with a funny emoji?

Aw op, just read half the thread. What a load of mean girls :(. A couple of people have said the same thing to me and now I'm wondering whether they were genuine. I'm autistic so I tend to think people are being genuine because it wouldn't occur to me to be a bitch.

What I would say is that there are billions of people out there and many of them are nicer than the people on this thread. Loads of people are interested in narcissism and will want to read your book. You just need to make sure they know what it's about. However, I'd start with a memoir or self-help because they're much easier to write and I think your audience would be more interested in that sort of thing.

People on Mumsnet just love making people feel crap about themselves, and entitled for expecting anyone to show them even the slightest interest. You are interesting to many people.

a bit self indulgent, writing a book about yourself. Not for me sorry

Jesus, someone really kicked the cunt bucket on this thread, sent them all spilling out.

OP, write your book.

It’s super simple to self publish on Amazon, I’ve got three books (self help type) and I make a few hundred quid a month and get a lovely warm glow every time someone buys one and especially when people message to tell me they’ve enjoyed it or it’s helped them.

You have nothing to lose and lots to gain.

Being a successful author requires:

• having a great idea and telling the story well
• having a great copy editor to polish it because by the time you finish writing it you are too close to see the flaws
• having a passionate, committed and resourceful publisher willing to invest in publicising and marketing your work to the right audiences.

If you have #3 you can skip one of the other elements, which is why some right drivel gets published by big names. Without #3 you may have a brilliant book but it will get nowhere. So it depends on whether your friend is actually a publisher or has a strong influence with a publishing house.

Why not write the book, it might be useful therapy for you and once it is written you can then consider if it might be publishable. Honestly this kind of book isn't my cup of tea but trauma memoirs and books about people turning their lives around after trauma is a known genre of non-fiction books so their is a market for them.

Alternatively saying to someone "oh you should / could write a book about that" is the sort of thing people do say when someone has a kind of dramatic back story so I'd take what they say with a pinch of salt.

Just remember that if a book is published it can have quite an impact, be sure to be honest after all just look at what is now going on with the Raynor Winn, author of The Salt Path!

Nobody will be interested in reading about your life if they don't know you. Why would they be. It's a non starter.

It sounds like you are sharing too many personal stories at work and your colleague has told you this in an attempt to get you to
stop.

Your situation isn’t unique or insightful.

100% nothing to offend in that. It's a figure of speech. I know that my family wouldn't heap praise on my book as it might not be their thing but it's sold reasonably well so there are people out there who have read it.

It's very difficult to get a book published these days. Most of them seem to be written by celebrities.

I'd start a YouTube channel first and talk about narcissism. I think it's a subject that people become obsessed with as they try to make sense of what's happened to them. Then you have an audience and there's a chance they will buy a self-published book.

I've written a book about autism but so far I've been too scared to start a YouTube channel so I doubt I'll sell many copies.

I've had a book published by a publisher and it's bloody hard work, stressful and time consuming, they want a second one but I'm not sure I can do it again.

Seriously, what’s vile about pointing out to someone that ‘you should write a book’ is rarely meant literally.

There are lots of books on Amazon on how to write a book

@itsokayokay I agree

And yet we are not allowed a funny emoji ?? Yet posters can come on and be unnecessarily vile.

Brace yourself
the Op thinks we are “cruel”