My mind is quite full today. After my blog post on my regular blog and reading other people's comments I decided to talk to my husband about the possibility of writing a book about the struggles of being bipolar and/or raising a bipolar child.
He said if I feel like I'm being called to do it, then I should.
So here I sit trying to decide whether or not I'm up for such a challenge. And how do I go about it, do I talk about how I struggled through my teen years, or do I focus on my son and how it affects our family. Both experiences have been quite difficult.
And do I write a non fiction account or do I spin it into a good fictional story?
Lots to think about. I feel like I already know the answer. I'm just not sure how to go about it.
4 comments:
I would definitely read a non-fiction about a bp mom raising a bp son.
I'll be curious what you decide. I read your other blog post and have thought about it on and off today. My first novel dealt in part w/ mental illness. I'm not pursuing publication with that one b/c I believe my writing has improved a good deal since.
One of my sisters has bp.
Keep us posted on how you move forward.
~ Wendy
Personal opinion? I think a fictional account of your adolescent years dealing with bipolar, as well as a non-fictional account about being a bipolar mom raising a son with bipolar and all the issues, experiences, etc. that have come out of that.
I'm not sure why I see this as being the right fit, but it just feels right to me. Though I know how incredibly difficult it will be for you to do this, I think that it will be an amazing journey for you!! And something that you really should do.
But, as always, you should follow your heart :)
hi-- this is my first time here-- so really , i am nobody to give you advice.
but i can say that i don't recommend that you think about it too much. reason being? i began writing my book more than ten years ago. i was fairly new to using a computer at that time. hence, the fact that i knew nothing about saving, or backing up files. so-- when my computer crashed? i lost every shred of it. over two hundred pages of my first draft. over the past ten years i of course have attempted several times to write it again. i have yet to get to the point i was at the first time. i've probably written it twice a year in my head though.
where am i today on this endeavor? same place as you.
fiction? non fiction? my name? pseudo name?
how do i start? how do i end? being bi-polar, and with a life like mine? most of my 'chapters have no 'endings. i have five hundred stories, that have never been tied up.
in there my trouble lies.
now i am in my mid forties-- almost-- and i have come to the conclusion that i have wasted a lot of time. and energy. but-- it is never too late. i do
wish' tho, that i would have followed my heart all those years ago and buckled down and just wrote. freed my mind and let it go. let it out- out it on paper.
just write-- anywhere-- you can type it out another time--- in the car-- in the airport- on the toilet-- write it down.. type it out-- the first draft doesn't have to be-- and it won't be perfect-- it isn't supposed to be. that's why it's called 'the first draft.'
that's why there's editing, and next drafts. second and third drafts. save the spit and polish for later.
write.
worry about fact or fiction later.
best of luck to you.
every book ever written began with the desire to write.
you have that--
get busy.
notes notes notes.
if you wait til you have time to get to the computer-- you'll forget -- maybe even get a little recorder-- just get it out THEN get it down.
again-
good luck-- lemmee know how it goes-
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