Memoir about living with a BPD/NPD mother

[Guest guest]

I am in touch with the publishing industry, and memoirs are fairly hot these

days. I also have BPD/NPD contacts in the publishing industry, as you can

imagine. If you think you have the talent to write a gripping memoir about your

parent, please let me know at Randi@....

Basically, in a memoir you SHOW, not TELL. It should read like fiction (except

it's mostly true) rather than I did this and she did that and I did this and she

did that. You use scenes with dialog and summary. For good examples, see

Reiland's Get Me Out of Here or Kiera Van Gelder's The Buddha and the

Borderline.

If you think you have a gripping story but can't write, you cna use a

ghostwriter or coauthor and there are various ways to pay on, either through

yourself or an advance from a publisher.

Of course it will be anonymous...'s book is not in her real name and she

has changed enough details to hide herself. Kiera is brave and went by her own

name.

[Guest guest]

Yeah, I'll consider it.

>

>

> I am in touch with the publishing industry, and memoirs are fairly hot

> these days. I also have BPD/NPD contacts in the publishing industry, as you

> can imagine. If you think you have the talent to write a gripping memoir

> about your parent, please let me know at Randi@....

>

> Basically, in a memoir you SHOW, not TELL. It should read like fiction

> (except it's mostly true) rather than I did this and she did that and I did

> this and she did that. You use scenes with dialog and summary. For good

> examples, see Reiland's Get Me Out of Here or Kiera Van Gelder's The

> Buddha and the Borderline.

>

> If you think you have a gripping story but can't write, you cna use a

> ghostwriter or coauthor and there are various ways to pay on, either through

> yourself or an advance from a publisher.

>

> Of course it will be anonymous...'s book is not in her real name and

> she has changed enough details to hide herself. Kiera is brave and went by

> her own name.

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

Dear Randi,

I have been thinking of this for several years and have been writing bits and

pieces. It has been an attempt to tell my story, which otherwise always gets

lost in my mother's loud and aggressive narrative, and to give a voice to at

least one child who has had to live through the storms of a childhood (and

adulthood) with a BPD parent.

Is there a timeline to consider? Any specific expectations to take into account?

Thank you for raising this possibility.

Arianna

>

> I am in touch with the publishing industry, and memoirs are fairly hot these

days. I also have BPD/NPD contacts in the publishing industry, as you can

imagine. If you think you have the talent to write a gripping memoir about your

parent, please let me know at Randi@...

>

> Basically, in a memoir you SHOW, not TELL. It should read like fiction (except

it's mostly true) rather than I did this and she did that and I did this and she

did that. You use scenes with dialog and summary. For good examples, see

Reiland's Get Me Out of Here or Kiera Van Gelder's The Buddha and the

Borderline.

>

> If you think you have a gripping story but can't write, you cna use a

ghostwriter or coauthor and there are various ways to pay on, either through

yourself or an advance from a publisher.

>

> Of course it will be anonymous...'s book is not in her real name and she

has changed enough details to hide herself. Kiera is brave and went by her own

name.

>

[Guest guest]

Heh. Oh, boy, do I ever.

However, my nada does not have an official diagnosis.

I am using what I know about BPD to write a novel. I think a novel about a KO

slowly discovering that he is, in fact, a KO, can be structured so that a lot of

people will recognize themselves and learn a lot. Plus, make him a big city

police detective and weave in a murder mystery or two, and...a spoonful of sugar

*does* help the medicine go down.

But you know about this one...you're on my Yahoo group.

I don't think my own unembellished story is " dramatic " enough for a memoir,

especially with no formal diagnosis of BPD.

(Unless I ever hit the bestseller list. THEN people will be interested.)

Dreamin' on,

.

[Guest guest]

Everyone, please send me an email about this rather than on this list. Including

this one. Thanks. Randi@....

> >

> > I am in touch with the publishing industry, and memoirs are fairly hot these

days. I also have BPD/NPD contacts in the publishing industry, as you can

imagine. If you think you have the talent to write a gripping memoir about your

parent, please let me know at Randi@

> >

> > Basically, in a memoir you SHOW, not TELL. It should read like fiction

(except it's mostly true) rather than I did this and she did that and I did this

and she did that. You use scenes with dialog and summary. For good examples, see

Reiland's Get Me Out of Here or Kiera Van Gelder's The Buddha and the

Borderline.

> >

> > If you think you have a gripping story but can't write, you cna use a

ghostwriter or coauthor and there are various ways to pay on, either through

yourself or an advance from a publisher.

> >

> > Of course it will be anonymous...'s book is not in her real name and

she has changed enough details to hide herself. Kiera is brave and went by her

own name.

> >

>

[Guest guest]

Everyone, please send me an email about this rather than on this list. Including

this one. Thanks. Randi@....

>

> Heh. Oh, boy, do I ever.

>

> However, my nada does not have an official diagnosis.

>

> I am using what I know about BPD to write a novel. I think a novel about a KO

slowly discovering that he is, in fact, a KO, can be structured so that a lot of

people will recognize themselves and learn a lot. Plus, make him a big city

police detective and weave in a murder mystery or two, and...a spoonful of sugar

*does* help the medicine go down.

>

> But you know about this one...you're on my Yahoo group.

>

> I don't think my own unembellished story is " dramatic " enough for a memoir,

especially with no formal diagnosis of BPD.

>

> (Unless I ever hit the bestseller list. THEN people will be interested.)

>

> Dreamin' on,

>

> .

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