: Re: Would anyone want to read a book about my life? I got the idea to write a book about my life story from my mother. At first I thought who would want to read about my life, then I thought

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I think you need to examine your reasons for writing and then the personal journey that would take you on. A lot depends on your motivation.

Do you want to write about your life? Would putting down all the facts, feelings and memories into print be in any way useful to you as a person? In that case just go ahead and it doesn't matter if nobody ever reads it. I assume that you are going to do a biography rather than fiction so you have to be factually correct and careful what you say about others. That means it's not a novel where you can re-write parts or alter things.

Do you then think it would be useful to someone else? If you published and only a single person read it but it in some way helped them would that be enough for you to feel it was worthwhile? Would you need it to be 10, 20 or 100?

If you are hoping for a large income from a best selling book and movie rights then you have to be realistic and understand that probably wont happen (it might but I don't think that should be your only motivation).

What I'm trying to say is work out why you want to do it and from that you can figure out what 'success' means to you. Just using sales figures is probably the wrong approach.

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Just to actually answer your questions:

Would you read it? Not sure, as a 50 year old male I'm probably not your target audience but I think my wife would and that means I might be persuaded if she said I should.

would my experiences be helpful to others? Only 'others' can answer that and they can't form an opinion without reading it. Also you have to define what helpful means. It might be that someone just feels like their problems are not as bad as they thought or it might be someone thinking that there is another person who understand a bit about what they are going through at the time. The word 'helpful' covers a lot of ground.

Would my experiences be worthy of a book? I don't see why not. I've read enough woefully bad fiction that has managed to see print. Why would a real life story rate lower than that?

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