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Mar 07, 2014 01:24PM
HI..I have just hit the "send" button, and my memoir is off to the final print! What a ride this has been...self-publishing, from mind to page, from slamming the laptop shut to yoga for calming down to tears to "OK, here I go again!" Learned so much about myself......first book and starting another one, this time though, I understand the workings more.. so hopefully, won't be as frustrating!! Lisa!' http;\\lisagsharp.com
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Congrats! I know it's tuff at times, but you made it. Kudos!
Many great things about writing .. my biggest lesson I have learned has been the things that had held me back in parts of the memoir are the same things that have held me back in life. Anyone else feel this way?
Oh yeah. All the screeching halts I experienced during writing were the same things that I 1. Never really got over 2. Suppressed the pain/memory or 3. I was yet to forgive others or myself. Fortunately I put it all on the paper. I forgave others. I forgave myself. I healed. I overcame the unseen obstacle I refer to as my past.
It was like on a subconscious level I could not move forward in the story until I acknowledged whatever the road block was.
Congrats to you both :) I went through the same thing... but even worse was after I published - I would have moments of complete panic. Wondering what I had just done and having the urge to just go delete my Facebook page and pull the book altogether.Of course right about the same time I would get an email from somebody who read it and said it inspired them to either speak out about their own abuse, or seek healing, and that made it all worth it again
I'm going through that with my marketing now my friends and previous co workers are like I can't wait to buy the book...I'm like yeah (halfhearted) knowing about to feel so exposed. But I reject the shame. It's not mine, it doesn't belong to me.
My memoir Dirty Shirt: A Boundary Waters Memoir is coming out on 6.17.14, and I am thrilled. You're right though, the writing of it was both therapeutic and unnerving, not knowing what the friends and family who are in it will think. I'm okay with my account, because I know it's truthful and have nothing to fear. That didn't keep me from using an alias for one character. Just didn't want to go there with the guy.
