Book Idea-- Your thoughts?

[Shannonkish]

Hey Fellow Writers,

My mom passed away in December of 2004. In the past year I have been through a long grieving process, one that isn't completely finished. Throughout this process I have kept a journal that contains a lot of thoughts and feelings. The journal shows the progression and process of grieving.

I am considering submiting this to my publisher as a manuscript. My desire is to help others through the grieving process.

This will be my second book (to be published).

What are your thoughts?

 

[Koshada]

Hey Fellow Writers,

My mom passed away in December of 2004. In the past year I have been through a long grieving process, one that isn't completely finished. Throughout this process I have kept a journal that contains a lot of thoughts and feelings. The journal shows the progression and process of grieving.

I am considering submiting this to my publisher as a manuscript. My desire is to help others through the grieving process.

This will be my second book (to be published).

What are your thoughts?

Without reading it it is hard to say much but if you re-read it and find it helps you finish your grieving process then it might have worth to someone else also. Otherwise it may be just another book that will collect dust along with the thousands that are published monthly.

Find someone who has just had the same experience and let them read it and ask them if it has any worth to them. If so, it may be well worth your effort to get it published.

Peace,
koshada

 

[thenightmarehero]

If you've done enough self-reflection before you wrote down your ideas and thoughts, then its likely that others may relate to you. Try it out. Hopefully you'll succeed with this book. Good luck.

 

[silentpoet]

It depends on the focus and the polish. The general idea sounds ok, but so do lots of things until you get down to reality. Not trying to be discouraging by saying that, just admitting that it is hard to determine without actually knowing what is in the journal or how you intend to translate it to a book.

 

[Received]

It would probably be better to make it into the story where the central character is yourself, or someone who symbolizes yourself. People comprehensively tend to relate better to character than to ideas, because characters have contexts -- we can see them, as it were. Perhaps even have a character who writes in a journal; I just think people are repellant to the idea of a journal; they want a story.

 

[Shannonkish]

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