To ask if your life story would make a good book?

[HoneyandSpice]

Just that really. They say we all have at least one book in us. And I've often wondered about writing one. Not many people are going to be interested in reading an autobiography of an unknown person. But a novel that drew from your own life experience. Possibly something that could help others. As in, experiences / trauma you have been through but lived to tell the tale. I feel it's worth thinking about.

Do you think people would be interested in your life? What would be the theme? And would there be a happy ending?

And no, I'm not a journo, or looking for ideas or a title. Just a genuine human interest. We all have lives / pasts that shape us.

This year...most probably!! The rest before that...not really!

It'd be a page turner! Omg, what else can happen...

I don’t think anyone would think it could possible be true if it was all written down!

Not a novel but my diaries from the past 9-11 years would make a good book (if I had bothered to write them at the time!).

People joke about when will I write my book and if walls could talk etc etc .

I think writing my autobiography would make me realise how eventful my life has been - covering alcoholic parents, marriages that went wrong, the death of a child, financial highs and lows. So far no happy ending, but I have my fingers crossed for 2020.

My life has been one pile of shit after another with no happy ending in sight. I don't think anyone would want to read it it would be too depressing.

I think it would be of interest to my kids once they are grown ups. I wish my parents/ grandparents had a book, this becomes interesting as you get older.
To wider public- not so sure, perhaps.

Emotionally abusive parent, rebellious teenage years (drugs, drink, sex), University, then drugs, drink, sex, violence; Affairs, 30year age gap relationship, alcoholism, health issues, PTSD, long-term relationship and DC.
I think I'd make an interesting read.

Oh gosh. So sorry to hear that, @Monkeychunky I do hope you are ok. That's the reason I said in my post about our experiences possibly helping others. Like @bluebellation has just said, mine would include alcoholic parents. Not the death of a child, but early and tragic death of my sister. Among other things.
I don't want this thread to be something that opens wounds. But if anyone wants to use it for support, that would be good if it helps them. to you both and thanks to others for their contributions. It confirms what I was thinking. (I have 4 days off with DD and this usually means thinking / musing time for me. Helps to write things down too. Mumsnet can be a godsend at times for not feeling alone)

I recently found my diaries from over 25 years ago. Reading through them was a bit of an eye opener. Think they’d make an ok book.... Teen pregnancy, living on the streets and sofa surfing, then a mother and baby home while my mum tried to have my baby removed from me, then my knight in shining armour (now DH) rescuing me and my lovely happy ending. Doesn’t seem real! 😂

I've already wrote mine. Obese, unfit smoker to runner, keep fit obsessed who then suffers a potential limb loss illness, two weeks in hospital one of them in intensive care. Will I run again? will my leg recover? depression ,anxiety. I think its rather good I'm just looking for an agent.

My childhood could be a separate autobiography but it's been done to death already by many others.

Not bad I suppose....

More about the characters and places than the actual events

Mine would make a good book. Like a pp said, I'm not sure if it would be be believed to be possible.

Hmm. It would be a bit harrowing at times but I think actually it could be a book.
Emotionally/physically abusive parent, sexually/physically/emotionally abusive stepparent who was placed as more important than us, more family dramas (not insignificant stuff) than you could shake a stick at, diagnosis of chronic illnesses, physically abusive ex but peppered with happy stories of my relationship with my siblings growing up on our farm and amusing stories of me as a teenager going out causing havoc.. to now. Happily married, easy, chilled life.

I did 5 years of online dating, and every single time I recounted the horrors stories to friends and relatives, they all said nobody would believe me. God, I wish I had been making it up!

I just turn my life into comic strips:

c1.staticflickr.com/5/4393/36150952754_19fcf6993b_b.jpg

My life is just one shit show after another, with some happiness thrown in. I think thinks are going to start improving, but 17-30 has been full of disasters!

My mothers life would be good.
My life has been varied and a bit of rags to riches but not hugely interesting, I imagine.

Any book would have to be a joint one with my husband about the children that we’ve worked with in various settings from fostering challenging teenagers to refugee camps in Ethiopia, from children’s hospitals to residential special education and children’s homes. We’ve thought about it a few times.

I dont think anyone would believe mine & it would just be a depressing read

I think if mine was a work of fiction it would be written up in reviews as :

Completely Far Fetched! As if all this could happen to one woman! So depressing too, could've gad more light and shade! Blimey the main character so annoying, never learned from her mistakes. That bloke was an absolute shit to her and still she forgave him

2/10

Actually I think it would it would be ok.....there has been some pretty wild times 😊😊😊

“I don’t think anyone would think it could possible be true if it was all written down!” Pretty much what I was coming on to say!

Friend of mine commented once about writing a book but I replied nobody would believe all that happened to one person! She knows me well enough to KNOW it’s all true but admitted I was probably right.

Another with alcoholic parent, enabling other parent, abuse, health issues, mc’s, divorce, major accident, disability, homelessness, mental illness...

And no happy ending as yet would be a major bummer!

My mums lufe us a great book. I'm blissfully boring in comparison.

Thanks @HoneyandSpice I am ok I have to be really. The future is set to get a lot worse and if I start to think about it too much I get overwhelmed.

No one would believe it