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pat
interesting reflections on that issue! if i should ever get to that point, i would probably just start writing, see what i find, and then arrange what i found later...
posted by
Nautikos
on January 12, 2014 at 5:31 PM
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PatB
I like your thinking, by decades. Matter of fact I'm writing a 'recollection' of events for this new military psychotherapist Chaplin, his thought is I'd be able to perhaps speak about it at PTSD meetings and be a help to others since alcoholism is a big part of PTSD,
posted by
WileyJohn
on January 12, 2014 at 5:21 PM
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That is the way I am doing my family book for son# 1 for when he turns 50. Everything that I have written for him and here will go in as it goes. Easy reading. A book to pick up and put down. Sometimes one story will need some thinkingon. Sometimes just a poem.
I would love a copy to cherish when you are done.
posted by
Kabu
on January 12, 2014 at 3:29 PM
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I find it interesting you have categorized the different decades of your life.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on January 12, 2014 at 9:25 AM
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I think you are going good now on the right track. Memoirs by decade are old hat and it takes a really good one to keep me going.
posted by
TAPS.
on January 12, 2014 at 8:54 AM
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I think one has probably got to half dream things or they slip back into oblivion. I once wanted to go back until I was two, I think one has to do it in little jumps. I remember with amazement when someone got mad at me for saying No instead of Yes, I did not know the difference at that time.Once you have thought of a time explore it and then you will remember it as a jump off next time.
posted by
C_C_T
on January 12, 2014 at 7:52 AM
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I agree, the memoir through categories
would be a livelier read than a simple autobiographical time-line. By the time the reader gets to the last page, there will be a time-line pieced together in their head. And you could always put a chronology in an appendix.
posted by
Ciel
on January 12, 2014 at 6:22 AM
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