Re: telling your story while everyone's still alive

"SereneBabe" <heather@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I finally told my parents how I want to write about my life but that it
troubled me to imagine them reading it. Wasn't sure what I'd do. I

<...>

Turns out my Dad would actually prefer not knowing. My mom thinks she'd be
fine, but she has just no clue at all. Her imagination couldn't consider
the truth.

So, I've started to wonder about the process of writing anonymously.
Seriously writing, as in writing a book.

<...>

You're saying that your parents wouldn't know if you wrote such a book using
a 'nym? I don't believe that. What if the book made you famous? Who would
attend the book signings? Would you appear in public wearing a burqa?

My thought is that if the book's revelations would hurt your parents, and
you're close to your parents (which it sounds like you are), you have to
weigh the gains against the possibility of causing them hurt.

I have a friend who wants me to write her story. A number of years ago, her
big-shot financial analyst husband made some rather *unwise* investments
with his clients' money, got scared when those investments tanked, ran away
and hid, got caught, and ended up going to prison. It was big news -- day
after day after day she'd come home with reporters from local and national
media camped out on her lawn, scaring her little girl half to death. When
she asked me to do the book, I told her she really needed to think about the
effect it would have on her daughter, who, of course, loves her dad in spite
of what he did. My friend told me to write it using fictitious names, and I
refused, saying that since it would be based on a real-life story, the truth
would eventually come out. The truth is funny that way.

~ ~ ~
PJ


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